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 comfort here. George and I went to the garden at 4.30, the first time we have been out so early; and then we all rode, Mrs. Colvin came down this time.

Saturday, April 16. George and I drove to the powder mills—rather a pretty airing, and we had our usual dinner party.

Monday, April 18. Went down to Calcutta at six in the morning by water. We were there before eight, but were all done up by the heat. At six in the evening, when the sun went down, Fanny and I went out airing in hopes of a breeze, which generally comes up the river after sunset, but it lost its way to-day, and it was very much like driving through hothouses. Our postilions appeared in their new liveries, which are very magnificent—all scarlet and gold, and the Syces in theirs; there is one to each horse, and nothing can look more stately than it all does now. I never shall be used to seeing those men running by the side of the horses; but in the first place they would starve if they did not, and the horses—sensible animals!—grow so