get nothing more than the sum total. He
kept a sailor's log-journal; but it is only
meant for sailors to read, though now and
then you obtain a glimpse of the sort of work
he went through. Thus:—"Sunday, 13th,
strong N.W. wind, half a gale, but scudding
under storm-sail. Sunset, anchored for the
night. Jaffateen islands out of sight to the N.
Lost two anchors during the night," &c. The
rest is equally nautical and technical. In one
of the many scattered papers collected since
the death of Mr. Waghorn, we find a very
slight passing allusion to toils, perils, and
privations, which, however, he calmly says,
were "inseparable from such a voyage under
such circumstances,"—but not one touch of
description from first to last.

A more extraordinary instance of great
practical experience and knowledge, resolutely and
fully carrying out a project which must of
necessity have appeared little short of
madness to almost everybody else, was never
recorded. He was perfectly successful, so far
as the navigation was concerned, and in the
course he adopted, notwithstanding that his
crew of six Arabs mutinied. It appears (for
he tells us only the bare fact) they were only
subdued on the principle known to philosophers
in theory, and to high-couraged men,
accustomed to command, by experience, viz.,
that the one man who is braver, stronger, and
firmer than any individual of ten or twenty
men, is more than a match for the ten or twenty
put together. He touched at Cossier on the
14th, not having fallen in with the Enterprise.
There he was told by the Governor that the
steamer was expected every hour. Mr.
Waghorn was in no state of mind to wait very
long; so, finding she did not arrive, he again
put to sea in his open boat, resolved, if he did
not fall in with her, to proceed the entire
distance to Juddah—a distance of four hundred
miles further. Of this further voyage he does
not leave any record, even in his log, beyond
the simple declaration that he "embarked for
Juddah—ran the distance in three days and
twenty-one hours and a quarter—and on the
23rd anchored his boat close to one of the East
India Company's cruisers, the Benares."

But, now comes the most trying part of his
whole undertaking—the part which a man of
his vigorously constituted impulses was least
able to bear as the climax of his prolonged
and arduous efforts, privations, anxieties, and
fatigue. Repairing on board the Benares, to
learn the news, the captain informed him,
that in consequence of being found in a
defective state on her arrival at Bombay, "the
Enterprise was not coming at all." This
intelligence seems to have felled him like a
blow, and he was immediately seized with a
delirious fever. The captain and officers of
the Benares felt great sympathy and interest
in this sad result of so many extraordinary
efforts, and detaining him on board, bestowed
every attention on his malady.

"Thus baffled," writes Mr. Waghorn, "I
was six weeks before I could proceed onward
to Bombay by sailing vessel." On arriving at
Bombay with his despatches, the thanks of
the Government in Council, &c., were voted
to him, "for having, when disappointed of a
steamer, proceeded with these despatches in
an open boat, down the Red Sea, &c." There
was evidently much more said of a
complimentary kind, but Waghorn cuts all short
with the et cætera.

He reached Bombay on the 21st of March,
having thus accomplished his journey from
London in four months and twenty-one days
—an extraordinary rapidity at this date, 1830.
Of course, the time he was detained in Cairo,
Suez, Cossier, and Juddah (where he lay ill
with the fever six weeks), ought to be
deducted, because he would have saved all this
time, fever inclusive, if he had not expected
the Enterprise from India.

He now turned his attention to a series of
fresh exhortations to large public meetings
which he convened at different places—
Calcutta, Madras, the Isle of France, the Cape of
Good Hope, St. Helena, &c., on the subject of
shortening the route from England to India,
and greatly lessening the time. He described
the various points of the new route he
proposed, and also the new kind of steam-vessel
which it was advisable to have built and fitted
up, for the sole purpose of a rapid transmission
of the mail. In an "Address to His
Majesty's Ministers and the Honourable East
India Company," which we find among his
papers, there occurs the following passage—
simple in expression, noble in its quiet
modesty, but pregnant with enormous results to
his country, all of which have already, in a
great degree, been accomplished.

"Of myself I trust I may be excused when I say
that the highest object of my ambition has ever been
an extensive usefulness; and my line of life—my turn
of mind—my disposition long ago impelled me to
give all my leisure, and all my opportunities of
observation, to the introduction of steam-vessels,
and permanently establishing them as the means of
communication between India and England,
including all the colonies on the route. The vast
importance of three months' earlier information to
His Majesty's Government and to the Honourable
Company, whether relative to a war or a peace;
to abundant or to short crops; to the sickness or
convalescence of a colony or district, and often-
times even of an individual; the advantages to
the merchant, by enabling him to regulate his
supplies and orders according to circumstances
and demands; the anxieties of the thousands of my
countrymen in India for accounts, and further
accounts, of their parents, children, and friends at
home; the corresponding anxieties of those
relatives and friends in this country; in a word,
the speediest possible transit of letters to the tens
of thousands who at all times in solicitude await
them, was a service to my mind," (of the greatest
general importance) "and it shall not be my fault
if I do not, and for ever, establish it."

By his indefatigable efforts in India, having
extensively made known his plans and