CHAPTER XXL 



The voyage to Europe, and a residence of nine months in Eng- 

 land restored my health ; when having obtained from the Court of 

 Directors an appointment to the first vacancy at Baroche, a settle- 

 ment in the province of Guzerat, subordinate to Bombay, I em- 

 barked a second time for India in 1777 9 with a beloved sister, and 

 several agreeable passengers. 



After a pleasant voyage, without an hour's bad weather, losing 

 a man by sickness, or meeting with accident or adventure, we 

 arrived at Bombay in little more than four months from leaving 

 Portsmouth. We stopped a few days at the Cape for water and 

 refreshments; I renewed my visit to the different objects men- 

 tioned in the last chapter, but saw nothing new. Thus circum- 

 stanced, a voyage of twelve thousand miles affords no subject for 

 communication; numerous passengers, like myself, have probably 

 traversed the expanse of rolling oceans between Europe and Asia, 

 without once reflecting on the situation which afforded Sir William 

 Jones enthusiastic delight; it requires a mind enlightened and 

 expanded as his own to enjoy the sensations which he describes 

 in his preliminary discourse to the Asiatic Society at Bengal. I 



