'A Tour to Sheeraz by the Route of Kazroon amd Feerozabad with various Remarks on the Manners, Customs, Laws, Language and Literature of the Persians to which is added A History of Persia from the Death of Kureem Khan to the Subversion of the Zund Dynasty' [‎7] (31/362)

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CHAPTER II.
Governor of Bushire—his Father—Trade—"Persian Supper—belief in
judicial Astrology.
But to return, after this digression, (which possibly does not accord
with the character of a traveller) to Bushire. The present governor
is Sheikh Nasir, the son of the celebrated Sheik Nusir, who sup
ported the dignity and independence of his situation against the
power of Kureem Khan.* Bushire owes the little consequence it
possesses to the efforts of this remarkable man, who, although
perpetually engaged in war, carried on a very extensive trade with
India and Muscat, the profits of which enabled him to keep up a
large standing force. At the period of his death, he is said to have
left his son two millions of money, three thousand camels, and six
hundred brood mares.
This is doubtless an exaggerated account; it evinces, however,,
the public opinion of his enormous wealth. But the son gave
himself little trouble to preserve the acquisitions of his father;
and, in consequence, Lootf Ulee Khan deprived him of that
wealth and power which he wanted the spirit to defend. On being
advised to take into his service a body of Georgians, who had been
dismissed by A Moohummud, and who would have ensured the
security of his property, he gave, as a reason for his refusal, that
they drank rack, and where was he to provide them with intoxi
cating liquors ?
A very considerable sum of specie is annually exported from
• Vide Niebuhr.