'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.' [‎270] (311/562)

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birds rooiled, or perhaps, built their nefts; but going farther on, I faw fome
land-crabs, which inclined me to think, that the holes belonged to the
crabs, and that the birds hovered about them for food. There is a fhrub
here of about two feet high, the leaves of which in make and tafte are
like the famphire ; alfo a Imaller fhrub which produces cotton. We travelled
about 20 miles to-day : courfe N. h E,
At one in the morning, we rofe, and began to pack up our bedding;
the camels that carried the other baggage, had been loaded by our fervants
about midnight: At two, we fet out in company with fome additional Arabs
and Turksy who with their loaded mules and affes, took up their lodg
ing lait night, within the fame hofpitable walls. At five we reached another
Caravanferah in the village of Azaup here we got coffee, and two quarts
ot good milk warm from the goats : this morning, the air was fo fharp,
that I was glad to exchange my Camaline with Jenkins^ for his thick
Huffar cloak. At this place we found a fire ready to make our coffee,
and were refrefhed by (landing before it. Here, one of my friends was
greatly hurt, by feeing one or two pretty women employed like horfes or
affes (as he in his tendernefs exprefled it) drawing water from a well; though
even in England^ we often fee offices equally laborious and much 1 more
fervile, performed by women. Befides, the drawing of water in all ages,
and over all Afia^ appears to have been the bufinefs of women •, Homer
fpeaks of princefTes drawing water from fprings, and waftiing with their own
hands, the linnen of their refpedlive families. We know that the woman
of Samaria^ who met Jeftis at Jacob's well, came upon this very errand,
and we have not the leaft intimation given us that it was deemed an hard-
fhip. But if the female is fo bad off in this country, hard alfo is the def-
tiny of the poor Trackers! who, exclufive of the continual fears they are
under of being devoured by lions and other wild beafts, muft drag like
horfes, through briars, builies, water, mud, ruflies, &c. and this too in
the coldeft feafon, and the darkeft night. Such is really their cafe, and there
is no pofllbility ot avoiding it, efpecially when they are in the fervice of a
Turhjh galley.
We did not tarry above half an hour at this Caravanferah) but proceeded
on after our camels ; about this village the country is pleafant, we faw a
great deal of wheat growing, and large numbers of cattle grazing. About
iix^we difcovered the Minarets of the Mofques in Baghdad) whofe ftile of
building is not much unlike the monument at London.
For a few miles, on both fides of the road, were many flocks of fheep,
herds of goats, and other cattle, as well as large fpots bearing wheat;
the foil all along is good, and wants only a little induflry to cultivate
and improve it. The diftance between the Tygris and Euphrates here, we
were told, is not more than fix or feven miles, confequently by letting in
the water from thofe two rivers, the whole might be made extremely
fruitful.