Chapter XXX

Best voyage to Silhet -- River -- Palms -- Teelas -- Botany -- Fish weirs -- Forests of Cachar -- Sandal-wood, etc. -- Porpoises -- Alligators -- Silchar -- Tigers -- Rice crops -- Cookies -- Munniporees -- Hockey -- Varnish -- Dance -- Nagas -- Excursion to Munnipore frontier -- Elephant bogged -- Bamboos -- _Cardiopteris_ -- Climate, etc., of Cachar -- Mosquitos -- Fall of banks -- Silhet -- Oaks -- _Stylidium_ -- Tree-ferns -- Chattuc -- Megna -- Meteorology -- Palms -- Noa-colly -- Salt-smuggling -- Delta of Ganges and Megna -- Westward progress of Megna -- Peat -- Tide -- Waves -- Earthquakes -- Dangerous navigation -- Moonlight scenes -- Mud island -- Chittagong -- Mug tribes -- Views -- Trees -- Churs -- Flagstaff hill -- Coffee -- Pepper -- Tea, etc. -- Excursions from Chittagong -- _Dipterocarpi_ or Gurjun oil trees -- Earthquake -- Birds -- Papaw -- Bleeding of stems -- Poppy and Sun fields -- -- Seetakoond -- Bungalow and hill -- Perpetual flame -- _Falconeria -- Cycas_ -- Climate -- Leave for Calcutta -- Hattiah island -- Plants -- 8underbunds -- Steamer -- Tides -- _Nipa fruticans_ -- Fishing -- Otters -- Crocodiles -- _Phoenix paludosa_ -- Departure from India.