This, like the last, was a quiet Sunday, very unlike those at Alexandria and Aden. Prayers were read morning and evening. Since yesterday we have run 133 miles only. Many of the passengers had prepared letters yesterday; in anticipation of the Hindostan passing us on her way to Aden from Galle but neither yesterday nor today was she visible.
The evening was beautifully starry though somewhat cloudy. On the northern horizon flashes of sheet lightning appeared at short intervals often very brilliant shooting upwards and sometimes laterally, shining brightly above or between the clouds.
Later in the evening, between 11 and 12 o’clock, I saw a meteor higher in the sky in the same direction, like a very large and brilliant star.
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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