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Imagine the soft rose light from the parasol over the white jackets and silk and the sharp shadows on the sand. How graceful the owner of the parasol was when she stood up! I think it was her duenna who toppled off the edge of the gangway with one of the Chittagong crew in the push to come aboard.
Fine names are found upon the map Kanturk and Chirk and Cong, Grogtown and Giggleswick and Shap, Chowbent and Chittagong; But other places, less renowned, In richer euphony abound Than the familiar throng; For instance, there is Beeyah-byyah-bunniga-nelliga-jong. In childhood's days I took delight In LEAR'S immortal Dong, Whose nose was luminously bright, Who sang a silvery song.
The sides and windows of our cabin being made of open lattice woodwork we fix up some newspapers and a mat or two we have over these, which makes all the difference. We had only half-an-hour for the bazaar at Chittagong. By the way I can't vouch for the spelling of this or any other names of places en route, but this is the way our First Mate spells it.
"Still, the Burmese may not consider the loss of Rangoon to be important, and may even try to recapture it which you may be sure they won't do, for I heard at Chittagong that there were some twenty thousand troops coming; which would be quite enough, if there were but good roads and plenty of transport for them, to march through Burma from end to end."
When I was at Pegu in August 1569, having got a considerable profit by my endeavours, I was desirous to return to my own country by way of St Thome, but in that case I should have been obliged to wait till next March; I was therefore advised to go by way of Bengal, for which country there was a ship ready to sail to the great harbour of Chittagong, whence there go small ships to Cochin in sufficient time to arrive there before the departure of the Portuguese ships for Lisbon, in which I was determined to return to Europe.
Departing from Sundeep we came to Chittagong, by which time a peace or truce had been agreed upon between the Portuguese and the chiefs of the city, under condition that the Portuguese captain should depart with his ship without any lading.
"If the men of his race are as brave as he is, Meinik, our troops will truly have harder work than they think to drive them into the sea. Does he speak our tongue?" "Yes," Stanley answered for himself. "I have been more than two years in the province of Chittagong, and learned it from one who was in our service." "And would many of your people risk their lives in the way you did, for a stranger?"
Had any energy, whatever, been shown by the officer in command of Chittagong, in sending up reinforcements which he could well have spared, now that the point of attack by the Burmese had been made clear Captain Noton might have taken the offensive, in which case serious disaster would have been avoided, and the Burmese would have been driven back across the Naaf.
They talked of men and women, a death at Zamboanga, a birth at Chittagong, of obscure heroism or suicide, and fortunes made or lost; while the two boys, gentle, melancholy, gliding silent in bright blue robes, spread a white tablecloth, clamped it with shining brass, and laid the tiffin.
My own boat and the dhow are both there, and I shall at once work up all the rivers, and set things going again. "I have a capital fellow, a native, who is carrying on the cattle business for me and, at Chittagong, I shall try and get hold of three or four more trustworthy fellows, to take charge of depots. I see a big future before us, and that before long.
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