The sky was overcast with clouds, and at about 3 o’clock afternoon rain came on, the first we had had for a long time, I thought since the showers during the gale between Malta and Alexandria, except according to some of the passengers, a very slight shower at Suez. It came down like rain in a thunderstorm in England, and continued for about three quarters of an hour: as it poured upon the deck the Lascars took the opportunity of washing their clothes as it ran along the deck, and many of them got a good soaking themselves. Had it been early in the morning I daresay that many of the passengers would have been very glad to have got the opportunity of the shower bath....
...Later in the evening sheet lightning, less brilliant than that of last night, shot up from the horizon, north east, north west and south.
The full journal will soon be published by Annet House Museum, Linlithgow. Waldie's journey to India forms a key feature of the museum's Waldie exhibition.
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