April 3 Friday – Shortly after noon, the Wardha arrived in Colombo, Ceylon. At 9:30 p.m. Sam gave his “At Home” lecture in Public Hall, to what Lorch calls “a highly appreciative but disappointingly small audience,” due to it being Good Friday and with inclement weather [194]. Livy and Clara spent the day sightseeing in Kandy; The Clemenses were guests of Dr. Murray, surgeon, “delightful people & a delightful bungalo” [Ahluwalia 20; Lorch 194]. Sam’s notebook:

One very seldom sees the ocean slick enough to cast reflections, often as we see the reverse stated; but now (noon) nearing Colombo, the vast piles of pink, & leaden & snow-white clouds on the horizon are repeated in detail in the slick & polished surface of the sea [NB 37 TS 24].

The Clemenses got word that a son of Franklin G. Whitmore had died. They sent sympathies on Apr. 5 [Apr. 5 to Whitmore].