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'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.' [‎133] (170/562)

The record is made up of 1 volume (518 pages). It was created in 1866. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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the leaft reply, he only ordered them both to be immediately carried ro
the furgeon. The captain was firft brought down to me in the after-hold, v
where a platform had been made, and then told me how dangeroufly his poor
Billy was wounded. Frefently after, the brave youth himfelf appeared, but
had another narrow efcape, the quarter-mailer, who was bringing him
down in his arms after his father, being killed by a cannon ball : his eyes
o'erfiowino- with tears, not for his own y but for his father's fate, I laboured
to affure him, that his father's wound was not dangerous, and this affertion
was confirmed by the captain himfelf. He feemed not to believe either
of us- until he afked me upon my honour, and I had repeated to him my
firft afTurance in the moft pofitive manner. He then immediately became
calm • but on my attempting to enquire into the condition of his wound,
he folicitoufly afked me, if I had dreffed his father, for he could not think
of my touching him, before his father's wound had been, taken care of. I
affured him, that the captain had been already properly attended to ; ^ Then-,
(replied the generous youth, pointing to a fellow iufterer) Pray, Sir, look
" to and drefs this poor man, luho is groaning fo fadly he fide me / ^ I told
him that he already had been taken care of, and begged of him wita
fome importunity that I now might have liberty to examine his wound :
hefubmitted to it, and calmly obferved, " Sir, I fear you muft amputate
above the joint r I replied, my dear, 1 muft !— Upon which, he claiped
both his hands together, and lifting his eyes in the moft devout and fer
vent manner towards heaven, he offered up the following fhort, but earneft
petition ■ " Good God, do thou enable me to behave in my prefenl circtmftances,
" wor.hy my Father's fort !" When he had ended this ejaculatory prayer;
he told me that he was all fubmiffion. 1 then performed the operation
above the joint of the knee ; but during the whole time the intrepid youth
never fpake a word,, or uttered a groan that could be heard at a yard
diftance.
The reader may eafily imagine, what, in this dreadful interval, the
brave, but unhappy captain fuflered, who lay juft by- his unfortunate
and darlincr fon. But whatever were his feelings, we difcovered no othe?
expreflions of them, than what the filent, trickling tears declared •, though
the bare recolleffion of the fcene, even at this diftant time, is too painful
for me.^—Both the father and the fon, the day after the aftion, were fent
with the reft of the wounded back to Calcutta. 1 he father was lodged
at the houfe of Wilmm Mackett, Efq-, his brother-in-law •, and the fon was
with me at the hofpital. For the firft eight or nine days, I gave the father
preat comfort, by carrying him joyful tidings of his boy •, and in the lame
manner I gratified the fon in regard to the father. But alas . from that
time, all the good fymptoms which had hitherto attended this unpaialleicu
youth, began to diiappear! The captain eafily gueffed, by my filence and
countenance, the true ftate his boy was in •, nor did he ever after afk me more
than two queftions concerning him*, fo tender was the fnbjeft to us both, and
fo unwilling was his generous mind to add to my diftrefs. The fnil, was
on the tenth day, in thefe words, " How long, my friend, do you think my
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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.

Publication Details: London : Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773.

Ownership: With stamps of the India Board and India Board Library.

There are numerous illustrations and two maps in the volume:

  • a copy of a large folded map at the beginning of the volume, 'A Map of India together with a chart of the Indien Seas, to which the operations of Admiral Watson's Squadron were principally confined; and shewing the passages made by Commodore James from Madrass to Bombay in the years 1754 & 1755 ... By Thomas Kitchin, Hydrographer to his Majesty';
  • a map of the route from the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. in Basra to Latakia, Syria, on the Mediterranean Coast 'Mr Ives's Route from Bassora to Latichea.
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1 volume (518 pages)
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There is a table of content at the beginning of the volume, detailing the arrangement of contents and page references (pages viii-xi) and a 'Table of Coins and Monies' (page xii).

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Dimensions: 280 mm x 220 mm.

Pagination: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xii); (1-506).

Condition: there is a large folded map, unfolding can be difficult withouth risk of tears.

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