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Show bottom of the stream, the boat gave a sudden lurch, and we moved silentl on down the waterway Wewere all tired when we reached Tarpasa late in the aftemoon, but w had arrived in time for the river boat that would carry us on to Goalundo The Ganges is unusually wide at Tarpasa and the dilapidated barge wher the steamboat would land was well out in the river; from our small barqu the deck looked very high. Mr. Gupta, Mr. Rao, and I climbed aboard b means of a rope, and on the hot and stuffy after-deck we drank tea whil the crows and vultures flew overhead. Then the steamboat arrived, Mr. Ra and I went aboard, leaving Mr. Gupta on the barge. As we drifted dow the Ganges he stood waving his white blouse, my last farewell from the kin people of Autsahai ‘Aside from the Dacca distict there are ofher papermaking vilages i making alive near the village of Amta where white, yellow, and grey pape s being manufactured. Paper specimens Nos. 23-24. This little communit 1i(-3 three miles from the nearest railway station, and was reached from Calta by a chnly four mile journey in uncomfortable, narrow gauge cars The automobile road to Amia, during our visit, was impassable. At Amt there were about thirty men, working at six vats, and the wages range from three to four annas for a ten to twelve hour day. The artisans worke was used as a raw material; th e the present time it is insignificant there. In the village of Hooghly (Flowrah) pa Nos. 25-26, a few papermakers were at work at the tim of our investigations Digital kmage© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, Al rihts reserved |