Mr. Higginbotham with pistols, because that gentleman resented
the idea of being taken for an Egyptian, through wearing a fez cap.
I had a talk with Capt. Warren at Jerusalem, and descended one
of the pits with a sergeant of engineers to see the marks of
the Tyrian workmen on the foundation-stones of the Temple of Solomon.
I visited the mosques of Stamboul with the Minister Resident of
the United States, and the American Consul-General. I travelled
over the Crimean battle-grounds with Kinglake's glorious books
for reference in my hand. I dined with the widow of General
Liprandi at Odessa. I saw the Arabian traveller Palgrave at
Trebizond, and Baron Nicolay, the Civil Governor of the Caucasus,
at Tiflis. I lived with the Russian Ambassador while at Teheran,
and wherever I went through Persia I received the most hospitable
welcome from the gentlemen of the Indo-European Telegraph Company;
and following the examples of many illustrious men, I wrote my
name upon one of the Persepolitan monuments. In the month of
August, 1870, I arrived in India.

On the 12th of October I sailed on the barque 'Polly' from
Bombay to Mauritius. As the 'Polly' was a slow sailer, the
passage lasted thirty-seven days. On board this barque was
a William Lawrence Farquhar--hailing from Leith, Scotland--
in the capacity of first-mate. He was an excellent navigator,
and thinking he might be useful to me, I employed him; his pay
to begin from the date we should leave Zanzibar for Bagamoyo.
As there was no opportunity of getting, to Zanzibar direct,
I took ship to Seychelles. Three or four days after arriving
at Mahe, one of the Seychelles group, I was fortunate enough
to get a passage for myself, William Lawrence Farquhar, and
an Arab boy from Jerusalem, who was to act as interpreter--