Instructions to Bombay passenger

In the first place, you are one of the passengers destined to be landed at Bombay, in the next place, you are not a soldier, and in the next, you are not a sailor, and, in the next again, you are not a servant. You are simply a passenger, who have never been at sea before, and are now bound to make the voyage to Bombay, which you will probably consider a very strange sort of life, in the course of which you will be treated in a manner very different from what you estimate at first. In the first place, you will be kept perfectly quiet, and will be allowed to say nothing which is not absolutely necessary for the purpose of making yourself understood. In the next place, you will be called out in the morning in time to see