'A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the years 1808 and 1809, in which is included some account of the proceedings of his Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart., to the Court of the King of Persia. With twenty-five engravings from the designs of the author; a plate of inscriptions; and three maps.' [‎44] (79/524)

44 RESIDENCE OF THE MISSION At BUSHIRE.
L oake, who was taken prisoner by them. It is unnecessary, therefore,
to add more on the subiect than that their chief resort is at Rosete,
on the Arabian coast of the Gulph of Persia: another, but tributary,
chief of the same people resides twenty-five miles from Rosellccm zi
Esmam S S. W. of Cape MumUm, where they possess an extensive
and lucrative pearl fishery. This, with the market winch their
plunder finds there, is the principal source of the traffic of the place.
Though it may not be necessary to enter into a detail, which may be
feetter found in original authorities, it taust be very obvious, that the
honour of our flag, as well as the interest of our commerce m the East,
will require the destruction of a fleet of pirates, which, assembling to
the amount of fifty sail in the harbour of Roselkeim, issue thence to
capture every English as well as native ship, and to spread terror
through the Gulph of Persia.^
On the arrival of the Nautilus, under these circumstances, the Envoy
dispatched a letter to Captain D avis of the Sapphire, requesting him
to proceed to the entrance ot the Gulph, to secure the Sylph, if possible.
On the 6th Nov. a boat arrived from 'Roselkeim, at the date of the de
parture of which no such capture had been made; but in three days,
another boat came in, which brought an account that foui vessels had
btoi taken, one of which contained a Nawah. We immediately recog
nized by this description the unfortunate Persian Secretary, the splen
dour of Whose dress had imposed him as a Nabob An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. on the pirates. The
hext day a still more circumstantial account of the capture leached us,
which convinced us that the vessel taken was the Sylph; but the report
added, that a large vessel from Bushire (which we instantly identified
with the Nereide) came in sight during the action, and having sunk one
of the piriites, (of whose crew of three hundred scarcely any escaped),
retook their ptize. In the action too, the pirates lost one of their first
chiefs, S al ben S al. The loss of one individual, the most insigni-
* See the note on their destruction, at the end.