text: " He now entered the Bhagirutti or branch of the Ganges leading to Calcutta and which bears in the lower part of its course the better known name of the Hoogly--while the main stream to the left is again subdivided into innumerable ramifications the greater part of which lose themselves among the vast marshes of the Sunderbunds; but he complains that "though by this branch large vessels and steamers pass up and down to and from the Presidency the route is very bad from the extensive jungles on both banks which are haunted by Thugs and _Decoits_ (river pirates:)--indeed I have heard and read that the shores of the Ganges have been infested by freebooters pirates and thieves of all sorts from time immemorial