QA. The Government has started a research institute eight miles 

 out but I had no time to visit it. Then we stopped at Penang 

 — farther up the Coast. It is a dirty hole and sleeping on deck 

 while tin and tobacco are being loaded does not add to the 

 pleasure of a stop. . . . 



April 23, 1905, Colombo: I telegraphed north this morn- 

 ing but will not receive an answer until to-morrow. I felt 

 quite blue to-day although I know it is unphilosophical to 

 worry. My father said that there would be mail for me here 

 but as there was none, I am afraid that something may have 

 happened. I don't like Colombo and will be glad to get 

 away. 



The overland trip to Madras was described in a letter dated 

 April 26, 1905: 



I left Colombo on the evening of the twenty- fourth as no 

 reply to my telegram had come and I did not feel like waiting 

 any longer. I have found out since that it is not hard to beat 

 a telegram by rail in India. I am going to telegraph again 

 from here and have the answer sent to Bombay. From all I 

 can learn though, it is probable that my anxiety is groundless 

 as very few Europeans in the Panjab were injured. The night 

 trip from Colombo to Kola was quite pleasant. Then the rail 

 trip of a day and a night brought me to Madras. The heat, 

 the thousand begging natives who wish to assist one at every 

 turn, and the numerous maimed and blind whom one wishes 

 to help but must pass by for financial reasons, all conspire to 

 make the trip unpleasant and never to be forgotten. Frankly, 

 I don't like southern India. There is not much to be seen at 

 Madras and I am getting out as soon as possible — at 6:45 this 

 afternoon. Two and a half days and I will be in Bombay. I 

 look at every drink of "soda" with suspicion. One can travel 

 so much more comfortably if not a bacteriologist. 



His letter of April 29, 1905, said: 



Here I am on one of the coast steamers, the British India S S 

 Dumra, on the way from Bombay to Karachi. We arrive 

 there to-morrow morning and in another forty-eight hours I 

 should be at Ludhiana. I just made the connection at Bom- 

 bay. One of the medical inspectors at the dock — Dr Graham- 

 Stewart — said that they were having about 10,000 deaths 



