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*[http://www.telelib.com/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/LandandSea/unqualifiedpilot.html "An Unqualified Pilot"] by Rudyard Kipling. An interesting and informative short story depicting the work of a pilot on the Hooghly.
*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
*Photographs from the Smithsonian Institution , possibly c 1863. Click to enlarge
**[http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58957~!53&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping in the Hooghly, Calcutta], [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58958~!59&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Shipping on the Hooghly, Calcutta] [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1288T662C4Q05.31019&profile=all&uri=full=3100001~!58960~!6&ri=3&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&source=~!siarchives&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Hooghly&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=3#focus Strand by the Hooghly, Calcutta]
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