CHAPTER II. 



Steamer Pekin^Mount Horeb — Blr-ool-Moosa — Hummam-ool-Pha- 

 raoon — Royal Engineers — Islands in Red Sea — Divine Service — 

 Exciting Intelligence — Aden Hotel— The Meer's Liberality — 

 Bombay — Indian Musicians — A Mahomedan Entertainment — Mer- 

 cantile Importance of Bombay — Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebboy, Bart. — 

 Lord Elphinstone — The Berenice — Munora — Tradition. 



The Pekin is a most comfortable vessel, ad- 

 mirably found in all ways, but being one of the 

 second-class steamers of the P. and O. Com- 

 pany, and only calculated to accommodate fifty 

 passengers, and our numbers exceeding sixty, 

 we were a good deal crowded ; indeed, for the 

 first two or three days, some of us were obliged 

 to dine on deck, but additional tables being 

 2:)laced in the corners of the saloon, everybody 

 thus found accommodation. The Meer never 

 came to table, as he preferred having his meals 

 in his own cabin, which was situated near the 

 fore saloon, where he had all his people about 

 him. The commander was most obliging and 



