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Morrieson, H., 1859. Mss. field books of Lieut. Hugh Morrieson, of the 4th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry, and Lieut. W.E. Morrieson, Bengal Engineers, surveyors of the Soonderbunds, 1812-1818. Calcutta Review 32: 1-25
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Anon. 1859. Mss. field books of Lieut. Hugh Morrieson, of the 4th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry, and Lieut. W.E. Morrieson, Bengal Engineers, surveyors of the Soonderbunds, 1812-1818. Calcutta Review, 32: 1-25.
[19] On Roymungol River:
"Having come to an anchor we saw a rhinoceros on the opposite side of the river drinking. I crossed in a pansway, he allowed me to approach to within 30 or 40 yards, I fired at his head and put the ball through his cheek, he ran off into the jungle before I could get a second aim at him. On reaching the pinnace I learnt from the party I had sent on shore that they had been successful in finding a tank of good water under the cocoanut trees, it was however surrounded by long grass and other jungle, the haunts of many rhinoceroees, they had made a regular bed in it. Being anxious to save a trip all the way to Chandealley (in the North) for fresh water, I went on shore with an armed party carrying fire-brands with which we soon set the whole place in a blaze. I left it to burn out meaning to return in a day or two to try and fill our casks."
It further appears that the country at the mouths of the Mollinchew and Roymungul rivers is infested by rhinoceroses and deer, the whole ground being cut up by their feet.
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