CHAPTER XXXVII.
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
-- Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.
MONDAY,--December 23, 1895.

Sailed from Sydney for Ceylon in the P.& O.
steamer 'Oceana'.

A Lascar crew mans this ship--the first I have seen.
White cotton petticoat and pants; barefoot; red shawl for belt; straw cap, brimless, on head, with red scarf wound around it; complexion a rich dark brown; short straight black hair; whiskers fine and silky; lustrous and intensely black.

Mild, good faces; willing and obedient people; capable, too; but are said to go into hopeless panics when there is danger.

They are from Bombay and the coast thereabouts.