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1819-27.
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for Egypt without leave, which would be nearly the same thing'.
If I hnd the great part of my journey takes longer than I ex-
pected, I shall then take my time, arrive at Constantinople in
the middle of summer, visit the shores of the Euxine, and enter
Greece in autumn, having nothing else to do—
" Bat just to look about as and to die."
' I do not see why I should not take a good look at all that
is worth seeing. I do not look to England with that impatience
that I once felt, and I expect when I get there to have more
pleasure in talking over old stories about Benares and the Holkar
Gudee, and the gaieties of 1807, than in anything that is now
going on. Blessed is he that expects little, and he shall not be
disappointed. Vh7<2. ' M. E.'
Amidst these matters of absorbing interest he had no time
for any reading that did not bear on his travels. To this I
have to make one exception. He acquired the possession of a
Church Bible, and was delighted to pore over it by candlelight.
This is referred to from time to time.
19.—I have a Church Bible, which I can read at
night, and do read with pleasure.
26.—I hnd I can read my Bible by candlelight,
which is an immense point gained/
His health failed during the last rainy season, and I hnd
in consequence many entries full of dread of detention, of fore-
bodings about home life and fear of inaction, but the general
tone is of joyous expectancy. The Raja of Colapoor gave some
trouble, and for a time there was an apprehension lest he should
be detained by a war. The clouds, however, cleared away at
last, Colapoor was settled, Malcolm arrived, and the month of
October hnds him in the midst of farewell dinner parties and
addresses. At the close of the month he writes, ' I have just
closed my last black box, but I am unwell, as I have now been
for these seven weeks, and do not enjoy the release as I should
do. Malcolm, to every one's surprise, came in on the 26th, in
perfect health, and in his usual spirits. All my uncertainties
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for Egypt without leave, which would be nearly the same thing'.
If I hnd the great part of my journey takes longer than I ex-
pected, I shall then take my time, arrive at Constantinople in
the middle of summer, visit the shores of the Euxine, and enter
Greece in autumn, having nothing else to do—
" Bat just to look about as and to die."
' I do not see why I should not take a good look at all that
is worth seeing. I do not look to England with that impatience
that I once felt, and I expect when I get there to have more
pleasure in talking over old stories about Benares and the Holkar
Gudee, and the gaieties of 1807, than in anything that is now
going on. Blessed is he that expects little, and he shall not be
disappointed. Vh7<2. ' M. E.'
Amidst these matters of absorbing interest he had no time
for any reading that did not bear on his travels. To this I
have to make one exception. He acquired the possession of a
Church Bible, and was delighted to pore over it by candlelight.
This is referred to from time to time.
19.—I have a Church Bible, which I can read at
night, and do read with pleasure.
26.—I hnd I can read my Bible by candlelight,
which is an immense point gained/
His health failed during the last rainy season, and I hnd
in consequence many entries full of dread of detention, of fore-
bodings about home life and fear of inaction, but the general
tone is of joyous expectancy. The Raja of Colapoor gave some
trouble, and for a time there was an apprehension lest he should
be detained by a war. The clouds, however, cleared away at
last, Colapoor was settled, Malcolm arrived, and the month of
October hnds him in the midst of farewell dinner parties and
addresses. At the close of the month he writes, ' I have just
closed my last black box, but I am unwell, as I have now been
for these seven weeks, and do not enjoy the release as I should
do. Malcolm, to every one's surprise, came in on the 26th, in
perfect health, and in his usual spirits. All my uncertainties