Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Sunday 24h April 1853

The weather still continued warmer, there being little wind: the run today being 121 miles. Prayers were read in the saloon forenoon and evening. The crew mustered after breakfast; one of the officers informed me that they amounted in all to about 200; the stewards and a comparatively small proportion only of the sailors being English, the remainder chiefly Lascars. Tonight the moon appeared to be at her full.

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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