'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎18] (43/562)

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Admiral Watfon leaves Madagafcar, and arrives at Fort St. David.—
An account of that Jcttlenient> of the Cbamaeleon, animated Stalk, &c.
—De/cnptlon of the Inhabitants, their perfons, habits and coins.—
Lift of the different Calls Into which the Indians divide themfelves,
with a jhort account of their particular cujioms, See.
ON the feventh of Auguft, having compleated our flock of water, and
taken in as many live cattle as we could flow, with a large quantity
of limes and four oranges, we left the iQand of Madagafcar ; ileerino the
proper courfe for our Eaft India fettlements. September the 5th, vt faw
Fryars Hood in the ifland of Ceylon ; and on the 10th of the fame month we
anchored in Fort St, David's road. The igth. Admiral Watfon on the part
of his majefty, entered into a written contra6l with me, for the eftablifhing
an hofpital in the feveral fettlements of India, into which I was to receive the
fick and hurt of the fquadron, and provide them with medicinal andfur ^ical
alMance, and alfo with provifions, nurfes, &c. &c.
On the appearance of our fquadron, with the king's regiment, Monl
Godeheu, who had juft landed at Pondicherry from France, and fuperfeded
Monl. Dupleix in his authority, moderated the high terms he had before in-
ed on with our countrymen, and quickly agreed with Mr. Saunders, (the
company's governor at Fort St. George} that a fufpenfion of arms between the
company and their refpeaive allies, fhould take place, commencing on the
1 ith ot Vttober, and to continue until the nth of January following: fo that,
to our great furprize, inftead of being employed on the objeds of war, we
had nothing to do but look about us i afid partake of that variety of amufe-
ments, which Grangers muft ever find in a country fo diftant, and fo differ
ent rrora their own.
rifinrtrn,',?/^ iS f ^ ^ ib ' 0 ^ ^ fortification, built on a
Mu 8 Thk'l/ft h a m n fr0m thc B'^k-Town, which is called Ci-
baftions bi rilmnl a W r " nnin g r o"nd it, with the addition of a few
to defend In irrirf T" 0r al i tl,e En 8 lilh troo P 3 on che P ro P< :ri )'
fori rj i! le greatcd part ot" the native Indian inhabitants of
the fca fide r^ / f eS - ^ the t0wn ' and the fo "> "e fituated near
^his fetdemin^s bfnrf y ' nS alm0ft dt,e r0l,th from the fo "- The c «ent of
three along the lea fide • Thl' f towarcls . tlle 'and, about four miles, and
brmer are pointed out by a thick hedge of the
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