text:  It is due to the khan to say that whether from being better equipped or from being endued with more philosophy and forbearance than his compatriot Mirza Abu-Talib Khan (to whom we have above referred ) he seems to have reconciled himself to the hardships of the _kala-pani_ or ocean with an exceedingly good grace; and we find none of the complaints which fill the pages of the Mirza against the impurity of his food the impossibility of performing his ablutions in appointed time and manner and sundry other abominations by which he was so grievously afflicted that at a time of danger to the vessel "though many of the passengers were much alarmed I for my own part was so weary of life that I was perfectly indifferent to my fate