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discharge old stores, or to receive new, 

 as we were very short of petty officers; 

 but I managed to obtain a day to visit 

 the cave of Elephanta, an island situate 

 about two hours' sail from that part of 

 the harbour of Bombay where we lay, 

 and where are still to be seen those 

 gigantic monuments of a bygone age, 

 whose history, like that of our own 

 Stonehenge, is lost in the remoteness of 

 antiquity. 



From Bombay we were ordered to 

 proceed with convoy to China, touching 

 at Poulon Penang, or Prince of Wales's 

 Island. In our passage across the Bay 

 of Bengal, and through the Straits of 

 Sumatra, I had repeated attacks of what 

 the doctor now decided was epilepsy, and 

 I was ordered not to go aloft in con- 

 sequence. 



Becoming enervated both in body and 

 mind, the captain one day sent for 

 me into his cabin, and, after lamenting 



