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occasions, but he has lived from his youth 

 amongst Europeans, whilst my royal master has 

 not had similar advantages. 



A poor soldier of the Engineers was struck by 

 a coup de soleil just after we left Aden, and not- 

 withstanding the skill and attention of the me- 

 dical officers, he sank under it on the night we 

 reached Bombay. Captain Cumberland, of the 

 Engineers, gave up his own cabin to the soldier, 

 whose ravings at night were terrible to hear. 

 Thus our voyage from Aden commenced and 

 concluded with a death. 



We reached Bombay on the morning of the 

 6tli of November, and were struck with the 

 beauty of the scenery around its magnificent 

 harbour, but this has been so often described 

 that I shall not weary my readers by dilating 

 on the subject. Immediately on our anchoring, 

 a moonshee, who is much in the Meer's confi- 

 dence, came off to pay his respects to His High- 

 ness, bringing letters from Meer Shah Nowaz 

 and his brothers. Having made arrangements 

 with the Custom House department for landing 

 that portion of the Meer's baggage which he 

 most immediately required, we got into a 

 budgerow, a large boat, with a cabin, and were 



