Extracts from Between Boston and Bombay: Cultural and Commercial Encounters of Yankees and Parsis, 1771-1865, reproduced with permission from author Jenny Rose.
In a neatly handwritten account, Cursetji Merwanji (Wadia) described the journey that he and Captain Faucon took together during the week of December 7-15, 1848 from Bombay to Poona (C. M. Waya, A short account of a journey from Bombay to Poona and vice versa). Faucon was a seasoned sailor, who had …spent many years in command of vessels in the Indian and Chinese seas, and by the time of his excursion with Cursetji Merwanji had been running opium......