| Description | H edescribes a piece of carelessness in writing and addressing a letter, leaving it to be posted while conducting an investigation, and finding it untouched when he returned. He describes his current boat experience and the innundation of water there, the highest level in twenty years, with villagers forced to live in boats and trees. William expands upon the impact on the countryside and houses before noting the return visit of the Lieutenant Governor to the Nawab. He was outside the Nawab's palace, said to be the finest in India and which beats Government House in Calcutta [Kolkata]. He describes the crowds of Indians in holiday dress and line of elephants with ornamental howdahs. William thinks the procession grand, but hollow. The durbar was better arranged this time, and he refers to the interior architecture, with the Nawab and Halliday on a sofa, and no particular incident. Halliday paid his respect to the begums and returned decked with necklaces of flowers. William is now with [William] Waterfield again. He will wait to respond to matters in Cary's letter. |