'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.' [‎318] (367/562)

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own merits, or the merits of the leader of any other religion whatfoever
The perfon of the Devil they look on as facred ♦, and when they affirm anv
thing lolemnly, they do it by his name. All difrefpedful expreffions of
him, they would punifh with death, did not the Turkijh power prevent
them. To (hoe a horfe, in their language, is exprefled by a word that has
a double meaning, and may imply a maledidion of the Devil. This ex-
prefllon therefore they religiouOy avoid, and have conftituted another for
the purpofe. Whenever they fpeak of him, it is with the utmoft refped-
and they always put before his name a certain title, correfponding to that
of his Htghnefs^ or Lord.
At twelve at night we refumed our march, and travelling over the fame
lort ot country as of late, with nearly a weft courfe, jwe paffed about
three in the morning a Imall river, which takes its rife alio amonaft the
Ferfian mountains, and falls into the Tygrh. About five o'clock we got
to a poor town, inhabited by Chrijiians, called Camalifk Gawerkoe, which,
I was told, means Chrijlian Gawerkoe. The chief of it informed me, that
it was once a city, the teat of a Chaldean bifliop, and larger than Moful is
at prelent, but that it iuffered great persecution, and was almoft entirely
deftroyed when Mahometanifm firft took place in this part of the world.
The town has now only about thirty families, defcendants of the orieinal
pollefrors. 1 heie, with the other Chrijlians within the Grand Seignior's do
minions, are permitted to live in peace, and to enjoy their religion on con
dition that they pay extraordinary taxes, and do not attempt to make pro-
felites among the Mujfulmen •, a breach of the law in this relbed, being
always pumfhed with death. Not a miffionary or Chriftian dares to write
or 1 peak to z Turk about religion. Of what utility then can the miHion-
anes of the church of Rome be in Turky, in propagating the Chriftian faith,
iinlefs we can fuppofe that they are fond of embracing martyrdom ? And
^ 1 ^ not: a f ]n gle inllance can be produced of the converfion of
a Mahometan to any other religion, fince the commencement of the Uegira.
The inhabitants fubfift by the profits of agriculture, and a fmall
/nanufaaure of coarfe linen cloth. They have a church, and four miniflers
01 apas, \\ o are allowed to marry ; they live upon the voluntary contri
butions or their flock, and are appointed to their offices by the Chaldean Pa-
narc . ole by the town, are the remains of an artificial mount, whereon
once ooe citadel •, and within the town, ^a fragment or two of a large
cnurt \tt land: heaps of rubbifh are to be leen all around the village,
f S , as u Pp n fhe hill. The prelent inhabitants (as we are informed)
t le original Chaldean language, as well as the Turkifh and Arabian.
At a little diftance from the town, thev fhew you the tomb of St. Bar-
ara, v. 0, according to the Papas account, died a martyr by the hand of
ner own father, a becaufe Oie perfiftcd to believe in Jefus Chrijt.
i ney tell you, that the father's Iword fell to pieces in his hand at the firft
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