Carpenter kept no diary, however his large collection of dated watercolour paintings allows his journey to be recreated.

He saw the new year in whilst visiting Salsette Island, after he had spent Christmas Day painting Mount Mary's Basilica at Bandra.

[1] His paintings included a view of the Mahim Causeway which had recently been built to join Salsette island to the mainland.

[3] In 1851, Carpenter met Tara Chand, the court painter to Maharana Sarup Singh of Udaipur and recorded that meeting with a painting of the Indian artist and his two sons.

[1] An important painting he returned with was a portrait of Prince Fakhr-ud Din Mirza, who was the eldest son of Bahadur Shah II, which he completed in February 1856.

After his return Carpenter was able to sell his paintings as the basis of stories to the Illustrated London News.