From India to the Caribbean.

The article discusses how the diary of ship surgeon Theophilus Richmond chronicles the transportation of Indians as indentured servants for service in the West Indies. Richmond served on the ship "Hesperus," which was chartered by merchant John Gladstone to replace former slaves on British sugar plantations in Guyana with Indian workers from Bengal, India following the emancipation of British slaves. Richmond described his perceptions of different cultures during the ship's stopovers in Mauritius and Calcutta, India and an outbreak of cholera among Indian workers on the ship. Richmond died of yellow fever in Georgetown, Guyana. Allegations of mistreatment of Indian workers are noted. Indians would form a large portion of the population of the West Indies.