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Kopal-Kundala.
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Part I.
Chapter I.
At the Meeting of the Waters.
At the end of a night in the month of Mágh[1] two hundred and fifty years ago a pilgrim-boat was returning from Gangá-ságor.[2] At that time it was the custom for boats to go in numbers together owing to dread of Portuguese pirates; but this boat was alone, as towards the end of night a dense fog had spread on every side, and the sailors, not know-