March 28 Saturday – En route on the Wardha in the Bay of Bengal, Sam wrote in his notebook:

Our captain (Robinson) is a handsome Hercules; young, resolute, manly … he cannot tell the truth in a plausible way. He is the very opposite of the austere Scot who sits midway of the table: he cannot tell a lie in an unplausible way [NB 37 TS 8-11].