"رحلة من إنجلترا إلى الهند في سنة ١٧٥٤ وسرد تاريخي لعمليات الأسطول والجيش في الهند، تحت قيادة الفريق واتسون والعقيد كلايف، في السنوات ١٧٥٥، ١٧٥٦، ١٧٥٧ ... ورحلة أيضًا من بلاد فارس إلى إنجلترا من طريق غير معتاد. مع ملحق يحتوي على تقرير عن الأمراض المتفشية في سرب الفريق واتسون، إلخ" [‎٧‎٦] (٥٦٢/١٠٥)

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*755' proftitute them to all comers. They will tell you imleed that their goi
firft debauched them upon account of their beautyj and that ever after
they muft remain lacred to the church.
During our ftay this time at Fort St. David, a very melancholy accident
happened to fome of our people, for the Kent's boat in trying to get over
the bar, was overfet by the violence of the wind and furf, and a young
gentleman who was a midfhipman and relation of Admiral Pvcock's, the mafter-
carpenter, captain's clerk, and two other men, were unfortunately drowned.
This misfortune was entirely owing to their making ufe of their own boat,
inftead of the common bar-boat, which is much better calculated for this
particular purpofe.
I fhall finifh this chapter with a fliort account of the caufe and violent
effeds of the land-wind, which in the fouthern parts of India blows for
two or three hours in the morning with an heat that is almoft intolerable.
As to the caufe, we may fpare ourfelves the pains of enquiry, if we only
look on a map of the continent of India, and obferve, what a vaft traft
of land this wind comes over, fome hundred miles of which are fand,
which necefiarily muft give the wind every burning quality long before
it reaches the Coromandel coaft. That this is the grand caufe of this
common phoenomenon, is very manifeft whenever a fhower of rain falls
at the time this land-wind prevails *, for if the wind in its way towards you,
chances to pafs through the fhower, you are fure to find the air agreeably
cool, even though the day be ever fo clear, and the fun fhines in its meri
dian luftre •, whereas they who live only at the diftance of a few miles
from you, but out of the dire<5l line v/here the fhower pafled, (hall at the
fame time be fainting under the ufual exceffive heat. Very many and
great inconveniencies arife from thefe winds. It is affirmed with confidence,
that they will fnap glafs, if too much expofed to them. I have feen them
ftrrp off the fineering from a cheft of drawers, and they will certainly crack
and chap almoft every wood that is not well feafoned. Another great
inconvenience arifing from thefe land-winds, is the whirling of the land
in one s eyes: the air is fo full of fand, that there appears a perpetual
hazinefs the whole day juft above the horizon. And when thefe winds
blow with more than ordinary violence, great quantities of fand may be
fwept from the decks of the fhips riding in the road, though near three
miles fiom the land. This abundantly convinced me of the truth of that
furprizing circumftance mentioned by the ancient hiftorians, of whole
armies being buried under the mountains of fand, which are fometimes
railed by thefe winds *.
But befides the inconveniencies I have already mentioned, thefe land-
winds have another quality which deferves particular notice; and that
& arenarum mohbus oppreffus, imerut. J ustini, lib. i. cap ix
4 ' ' is.