The morning was fine and there was abundance of bustle on board as we were receiving the mails and passengers with their luggage. About a dozen passengers joined us here, I believe, making up the losses we had sustained at Gibraltar, as well as a few more at Malta. I observed a rather dirty looking Arab in Turkish costume added to our list, as a second class passenger. About 10 o’clock we started off and soon lost sight of Malta and of land: the weather was fine and the breeze gentle but against us. It increased in strength however during the day, giving little promise of a comfortable evening.
The full journal will be published by Annet House Museum, Linlithgow in May. Waldie's journey to India will form a key feature of the museum's Waldie exhibition which will open to the public on 18 May.
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