he _Cassandra_ consisted of fifty-one souls all told,
officers and ordinary seamen. Besides these were six passengers, the
list of whom I give below, it having been copied from my log-book
journal:

Captain Edward Leach (of the East India Company's service).

Mr. Thomas Fellows (who was to take the newly established agency of the
Company at Cuttapore).

Mr. John Williamson (a young cadet).

Mrs. Colonel Evans (a sister-in-law of the Company's agent spoken of
above).

Mistress Pamela Boon (a niece of the Governor at Bombay).

Mistress Ann Hastings (the young lady's waiting-woman).

Of Mistress Pamela Boon I feel extreme delicacy in speaking, not caring
to make publick matters of such a nature as our subsequent relations to
one another. Yet this much I may say without indelicacy, that she was at
that time a young lady of eighteen years of age, and that her father,
who had been a clergyman, having died the year before, she was at that
time upon her way to India to join her uncle, who, as said above, was
Governor at Bombay, and had been left her guardian.

Nor will it be necessary to tire the reader by any disquisition upon the
other passengers, excepting Captain Leach, whom I shall have good cause
to remember to the very last day of my life.

He was a tall, handsome fellow, of about eight-and-twenty years of age,
of good natural parts, and of an old and honorable family of
Hertfordshire. He was always exceedingly kind and pleasant to me, and
treated me upon every occasion with the utmost complacency, and yet I
conceived a most excessive dislike for his person from the very first
time that I beheld him, nor, as events afterwards proved, were my
instincts astray, or did they mislead me in my sentiments, as they are
so apt to do upon similar occasions.

After a voyage somewhat longer than usual, and having stopped at St.
Helena, which hath of late been one of our stations, we sighted the
southern coast of Madagascar about the middle of July, and on the
eighteenth dropped anchor in a little bay on the eastern side of the
island of Juanna, not being able to enter into the harbor which lyeth
before the king's town because of the shallowness of the water and the
lack of a safe anchorage, which is mightily necessary along such a
treacherous and dangerous coast. In the same harbor we found two other
vessels--one the _Greenwich_, Captain Kirby, an English ship; the other
an Ostender, a great, clumsy, tub-shaped craft.