Neville recounts that after his friend and mentor Abdullah told him in 1933 'you will die but not surely die,' he traveled to Barbados still bound by a strict regimen of vegetarianism, total abstinence, and celibacy. He returned three months later free of every one of those restrictions, discovering he could now drink wine and liquor and enjoy them, though when he tried smoking he found he could not enjoy it.
Date (happened)
c. March 1934
estimated · possible · preferred
Why
Same underlying 1933 Barbados voyage as hist_event 788; this event dates the return and the behavioral change (loss of ascetic restrictions), not the departure.
Reasoning
This passage ties the voyage to Abdullah's 1933 'you will die but not surely die' remark and describes returning 'three months later'. hist_event 788 ('Victor sends Neville a steamship ticket to Barbados', a separate event not in this worklist and not touched here) already establishes this same voyage's departure at circa 1933-12-03/04 from independent multi-lecture corroboration. Three months after an early-December 1933 departure gives circa March 1934 for the return described here. Confidence is possible because 'three months' is an approximation and the departure date it is added to is itself drawn from another event's evidence rather than this passage alone.
Told / reported
10 March 1964
estimated
Reasoning
The lecture carries a single certain delivery claim with no competing evidence.