'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.' [‎248] (289/562)

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undergo the fame felf-denial. He courted us very much, but we gave him
to underftand, that works and not words dilplay the man: this obfervatioti
filenced him, and we have no more repetitions of his being our devoted
fervant. We defired Mr. Hemet (whom we had now taken on board the
yacht) to beg the Chocarda to haften on board the Sandal \ and to tell him
alfo, that as ^we had loft fo much time in the night, we ought not to lofe
any in the day. He was not well pleafed, and told Mr. Hemet in a vulgar
phrafe of the Turks " That he (Hemet) had eaten T—d, and to him, all
the difturbances and mirunderftandings, had been owing/'
The road for our Trackers, is here in general very bad; they are obliged
to work much in the water. The country about us, fuch as we paflcd
ycfterday. Great quantity of partridges and doves, are yet to be feen. The
edges of the river abound in fedge, the cyprefs-tree, a dry plant full of a
thorny feed-veflel, and the caper fhrub. The Mufchetos are innumerablci
their firings and hnmmings are intolerable to us in the night, while the flies
are extremely troublefome in the day.
At fix this evening, we pafled by an iflandand at«eight we anchored
in the ft ream: the Sandal was made faft to the fhore. We gained but
twenty-two miles to-day. No horizon for obfervation.
At five in the morning weighed, and began to track. At nine pafled
two fmall boats, one going down the river, the other up \ this laft had five
men with three matchlocks-, they looked fufpicious, and our Chocarda
aflured us they were rogues; but our Knockaty or pilot, told us he knew them,
and that the chief of the boat lived in the next village; that he had come
thus far as an efcort to the other boat, and now offered his fervifce to us.
We thought this the moft probable ftory of the two, yet kept a good look
out all the following night. At ten we anchored, our Trackers having left
the rope; at eleven, weighed and tracked again: fome rain fell, but in no
great quantity *, it thundered and lightned, as it did yefterday.—At half
paft two, took the Trackers on board, and made fail with a fine and fair
breeze. By four we pafled by an old ruined fort, and three rivers on the
right, one of which we were told was a branch of the Tygris. At half paft
five, fent afhore the Trackers. At half paft ten we anchored to wait for
the Sandal.
Had it not been for the vexation, proceeding from the Mufchetos, this
evening had pafled very pleafantly. On both fides of the river are the
willow, and poplar trees •, a number of birds rooft in them, which we dif-
turbed in our paflage •, the pidgeon, turtle, and variety of finging birds
are here in great abundance. During the whole night one of the fongfters
chaunts the notes of the thrufh and nightingale. Large flocks of Pelicans^
many ducks, partridges, kingVfifhers and fwallows, are around us.