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**Notes from the [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_unqualified1.htm Kipling Society].
*Read about the Bengal Pilot Service in September 1800, Pilot Mr Parry, the perils of shifting sand in the river, with numerous sharks and alligators [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41 Part 10], page 41 from ''Cursory Remarks, on board the ship Friendship'' by Mary Anne Reid, continues [http://books.google.com/books?id=mKgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA249 part 11] Google Books
*The Bengal Pilot Service in 1859. The author was aboard HMS Retribution [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924026424196#page/n171/mode/2up ''Memories of the Sea'', page 151] by Admiral Penrose Fitzgerald 1913 Archive.org
*Photographs from the Smithsonian Institution , possibly c 1863. Click to enlarge
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