ON BOARD. 21 



At length we were directed to elevate our noses, and 

 sniff the spicy gales and perfumed breezes that were said to 

 be wafted from the island of Ceylon, and some of us per- 

 suaded ourselves of the fact. Soon the coast of Hindostan 

 became distinctly visible, and long lines of cocoa-nut and 

 palmyra trees, with now and then a pagoda, ushered in the 

 first announcement of our arrival at the land destined to be 

 a home to some and a grave to .many of us ; indeed, I believe, 

 from after information obtained, that I am the only sur- 

 vivor of the passengers of the Orient. 



