She made, at this time, two acquaintances that were destined to have considerable influence on her future life.

On the 5th August, the _Godolphin_, twenty-one days from Mocha, approached Bombay, but being unable to make the harbour before nightfall, anchored outside; a proceeding that would appear, even to a landsman, absolutely suicidal in the middle of the monsoon, but was probably due to fear of pirates.[3] That night heavy weather came on, the ship's cable parted, and the _Godolphin_ became a total wreck at the foot of Malabar Hill.

Apparently, all the Englishmen on board were saved, among them the second supercargo, a young man named Thomas Chown, who lost all his possessions.

There was also in Bombay, at the time, a young factor, William Gyfford, who had come to India, six years before, as a writer, at the age of seventeen.

We shall hear of both of them again.
In October, came news of the death of Mr.Robert Mence at Carwar.