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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.' [‎255] (296/562)

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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boat, which did not get up to us, till nine o'clock. At feven, whilft
at anchor, a Turkijh galley pafied us, having the Pajha Gange.Mahomed
Aga on board ; a general commanding thirty thoufand troops: he had been
down the Euphrates, direftmg at what places the river fiiould be let in, and
where (lopped. We hailed him, and fome compliments pafled • he told us
he fhould haul a little ahead, and lye by for the night •, we aniwered that
we would do the fame. After he had juft pafled us, we faluted him with
one gun, which he returned.
On this little ifland Meflleurs Alms, Figot, myfelf and two fervants went
afhore with our guns, and had good diverfion, Hiooting at Jackals •, they
were the moft hairy ones I ever faw, and which like fpaniels took imme
diately to the water. We found feveral of their holes, tired into one where
we fufpeded a Jackal had kenneled, and made a fire before it, but without
fuccefs. We aimed feveral fhot at an animal we took for the otter; it lay
on the bank near the water, but dipt in, and fwam from'us, often diving, and
when up, turning its head every now and then towards us, givino- a melan
choly yell: we found its dung as large as that of a dog, it confiftcd of the
ihells of crabs, with which the banks of the Euphrates abound, as alfo
turtle egg fhells, and the fkins of many kind of infeds. We killed
divers birds. By our Chocarda, we were told, that the dogs of an Arab
camp behind us, had killed a large wild hog, which had been before wounded
probably by Meffieurs Alms and Figot, This afternoon Mr. Alms killed
with a fingle ball, at the diftance ot about two hundred and fifty yards, a
beautiful pheafant-coloured curlew; there were more in corqipany.
This has been a windy fatiguing day for our Trackers-, the middle part
not very hot, the evening coR The Mufcbetos about this idand put us to
infufferable pain, but we got rid of thefe tormentors in the nio-ht, as wc
reached to windward of the ifland. This afternoon we pafled the"very fpot,
where Cojee-Simon, the Armenian, was lately robbed; near to a place
called Monzaradub. We faw here a great number of Pelicans. Got nine
teen miles. Latitude by Meflleurs Doidge and Alms's obfervations 21 0 22
north, ^
The laft night was very cold, and this morning the wind is high, foul
and bleak. Our Trackers flate is fuch, as calls aloud for pity, and plenty
of food : they have worked feven hours in the fedge and water, brealt
high; and at eleven o'clock in the morning no profpe6l of a change
for the better. Saw two otters on a little dry bank, and fome turtle. We
^got this morning three quarts of fine rich milk, and wanted to pur-
chaie a calf, but the Arabs would not lell it, nor have we been able to buy
one fince entring the river ; not owing, as in India, to a religious fcruple, but
becaufe it would be a leflening of the herd, on whofe number the impor
tance of the Sheick entirely depends. Our Chocarda, this cold morning,
4 greatly

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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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