That I was watched all the time I was in India afterwards I have no doubt, but no attempts were made to assassinate me.

They would have known that I went straight away, but whether I had buried them somewhere on the road, or had given them to someone's care at Madras they could not know, and there was, therefore, nothing for them to do but to wait till I made a move.
"I have no doubt whatever that they came over in the same ship with me.
Two or three times during the week I was in London I saw colored men in the street outside the hotel.

Once it was a Lascar seaman, another time a dark looking sailor in European clothes: he might pass for a Spaniard.
Several times as I was going about in a sedan chair I looked out suddenly, and each time there was a dark face somewhere in the street behind.

I had a letter this morning from the lawyer, and he mentioned that two days ago his offices had been broken into, and every strong box and drawer forced open, but that, curiously enough, they could not find that anything had been stolen, though in the cashier's box there were 30 pounds in gold.

Of course it was my friends.