334 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. [chap. xvi. 



steaming. At 11 p.m. a nice breeze sprang up from east 

 and helped us. About 12 a white patch reported 

 seemed a shoal, but none is marked on the chart. Steered 

 a point more out from land ; another white patch 

 marked in middle watch. Sea and wind lower at 3 a.m. 

 At daylight we found ourselves abreast high land at least 

 500 feet above sea-level. Wind light, and from east, 

 which enables us to use fore and aft try-sails. A ground- 

 swell on, but we are getting along, and feel very thankful 

 to Him who has favoured us. Hills not so beautifully 

 coloured as those in Africa. . . . 



" At 7 p.m. a furious squall came off the land ; could 

 scarcely keep the bonnets on our heads. Pitchy dark, 

 except the white curl on the waves, which was phos- 

 phorescent. Seeing that we could not enter the harbour, 

 though we had been near, I stopped the steaming and 

 got up the try-sails, and let Pennell, who has been up 

 thirty hours, get a sleep. 



" 13th June 1864. — We found that we had come 

 north only about ten miles. We had calms after the 

 squall, and this morning the sea is as smooth as glass, 

 and a thick haze over the land. A scum as of dust on 

 face of water. We are, as near as I can guess by the 

 chart, about twenty -five miles from the port of Bombay. 

 Came to Choul Rock at mid-day, and, latitude agreeing 

 thereto, pushed on n. by w. till we came to light-ship. 

 It was so hazy inland we could see nothing whatever, 

 then took the direction by chart, and steered right into 

 Bombay most thankfully. I mention God's good provi- 

 dence over me, and beg that He may accept my spared 

 life for His service." 



Between the fog and the small size of the Nyassa, her 

 entrance into the harbour was not observed. Among 

 Livingstone's first acts on anchoring was to give hand- 

 some gratuities to those who had shared his danger and 

 helped him in his straits. Going ashore, he called on the 

 Governor and the police magistrate, but the one was 



