But of all this I will tell if Heaven be pleased to grant me a safe return to Lantrig.

Let me now recount my business with Mr.
Elihu Sanderson.
"I said farewell to the captain of the _Golden Wave_ and my friend Colliver upon the quay, meaning to ask Mr.Sanderson to recommend a good lodging for the short time I intended to stay in Bombay.
Captain Carey had already directed me to the East India Company's office, and hither I tried to make my way at once.

Easy as it was, however, I missed it, being lost in admiration of the crowd.

When at last I arrived at the doors I was surprised to see Colliver coming out, until I remembered that his brother was in the Company's employ.
It seems, however, that he had been transferred to Trichinopoly some months before, and my friend's labour was in vain.

I am bound to say that he took his disappointment with great good-humour, and made very merry over our meeting again so soon, protesting that for the future we had better hunt in couples among this outlandish folk; and so I lost him again.
"After some difficulty and delay I found myself at length in the presence of this Mr.Elihu Sanderson, on whom I had speculated so often.