Memories of Seven Campaigns a Record of Thirty Five Years Service in the Indi
Memories of Seven Campaigns a Record of Thirty Five Years Service in the Indi
James Howard Thornton
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The rainy season commenced early at Julpigoree, and was ushered in by heavy storms with violent wind and rain and much thunder and lightning. The river Teesta rose rapidly and soon became a vast and turbid flood carrying down with it quantities of drift wood, logs, fallen trees, and other debris. Notwithstand- ing the swift and powerful current, our men were continually 164 MEMORIES OF SEVEN CAMPAIGNS plunging into the river to secure the drifting logs and thus provide themselves with firewood ...gratis. The river water almost reached the top of the broad embankment which protected the station from being inundated, and sometimes it seemed as though the swollen river would overpass this barrier. Had it done so, not only the station but much of the surrounding country would have been submerged. The rain came down in torrents and no less than forty-two inches fell during the month of June. The ground was nearly everywhere a sheet of water, even under our houses, and it was impossible to go anywhere without getting wet.
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