April 2 Thursday – The Clemens family was en route on the Wardha in the Bay of Bengal, headed for Colombo, Ceylon. Aboard ship Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers.

I didn’t quite finish in India, because I got laid up in Jeypore, Rajputana, with diarrhea, but I came very near doing it. Perhaps I might not have had to cancel any engagements at all if this ship had stuck to her advertised sailing-day instead of suddenly shortening up her date. We had to jump for the train and travel two nights and a day to catch her.

We reach Colombo, Ceylon, to-morrow; and my talks there will end this part of the campaign. We then go on in this vessel to the Mauritius; then change for South Africa.

I’ve been sick a good deal; the rest not so much; but we have had a good time in India — we couldn’t ask a better. They are lovely people there, both in the civil and the military service, and they made us feel at home [MTHHR 202].