He is on the Isle of Wight on 8th February, writing about house hunting. 14th February he is aboard RMS KARAPARA, at Penang, letter forms an account of each day up to 19th February, when he arrives in Singapore. The sea is ‘calm as a mill pond’. Coming out of the engine room on the 18th he kills a ‘huge kind of flying lizard’. There has been an outbreak of chicken pox among the crew. 27th February to the 1st March, he is aboard HMS KARAPARA at Rangoon, he writes about films he’s seen, how he hopes to get work on a turbine steamer to get some experience, and how the engine on his ship blew out and is now emitting steam along with a ‘deafening’ noise. 2nd March he writes from Calcutta. On 9th March he is aboard SS HATIMURA where he has been promoted to Third, and says ‘I feel happy in my new job, if only I had not to go down into a hot engine room’. 29th March writing from Bhavnagar, still aboard SS HATIMURA, after having changed crew at Bombay ‘luckily for the better’. He is struggling with his new routine as his day ‘starts at midnight now’ in the engine room. His last letter from March concerns the flies which plague the ship as it nears land.