June

June 1.
I joined the Regiment, and took up my residence at my own House on Coolabah; I am much pleased with my Bungaloe [sic] and its situation which is truly a very delightful one indeed, commanding a beautiful Prospect of the Town and Harbour of Bombay, the Islands, the opposite Shore and Sea. — I omitted in its place to mention the arrival of the first Indiamen from England this years — vizt. the Rockingham commanded by Captain Blanchard, [sic] which Ship arrived in the Harbour on the 23d. of May. — I had the pleasure of a letter from my Brother Charles by her, which announced good accounts of himself and all my Friends at home. —

June 14.
Arrived in Harbour, the Middlesex East Indiaman Capt. Rogers. — My old Friend and acquaintance Doctor Hector Maclean from Coll, is Surgeon of the Middlesex, from whom I received a warm affectionate Note announcing his arrival, and accompanying a letter from my ever good and worthy Friend Genl. Allan Maclean which afforded me much pleasure. — I went into Town in the Evening to see my Friend Hector, whom I found stout and hearty; I gave him an invitation to live with me during his stay at Bombay; which he declined, but promised to be as often with me as his business would admit of; and he was as good as his word, for we spent a number of very merry agreeable days together at my House on Coolabah, while the Ship lay at Bombay; and I found much pleasure in his agreeable Society. —

Source
Macquarie, Lachlan. Journal No. 2: 26 March 1792 - 28 December 1794. Original held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. ML Ref: A768 pp.387-389. [Microfilm Reel CY299 Frames #204-205].