'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.' [‎325] (376/562)

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This morning, accompanied by our and we went into
the city and fpent the day at the father's houfe, very aareeably • I learned
from Padre Franafco vho afts the phyficmn, that the difeafes common here
are ardent fevers and bloody fluxes in. the fummer •, intermittents in the
wet weather and winter; and that bilious obftruetions, and tumid livers
are frequent, as in India. b
The neighbouring mountains afford filver mines;, and they would yield
much quickfilver, had the Turks either fkill or inclination to work them to
advantage: Lanza fays r that an Englijhman fome time ago got two or three
botdes of it m his way home, and prefented it to the Bajha, as a fpecimen
cf what might be- Gone in that way; but qo farther attempts have been
made in conlequence of the difcovery. In this country alib are lead mines,
wnich piouiice as much of that metal, as furmfhes them with bullets, and
lome neceffary utenfrls. '
Thefe gentlemen gave us no pleafing account, either of the integrity
or valour of the loldiers who guard the Caravans ; as that upon an attack
thefe very men are frequently the firft who abandon the charge and fl y : nor
is it uncommon for the condudor to be in league with the chief of the
robbers: upon my afldng, whether fuch conduft would not be puniflied
with certain death by the Bajha, whofe own honour and interefl:, as well as
xht Grand Seignior, were concerned? I was anfwered with a fliruo-
of the IhoulderSi, and a hint that even this great man might peflibly receive
Hujh-money from the leaders of thofe very Banditti: but the robbers them-
felves have no true courage, for they tell us of a large Caravan having
peen faved by the valour of a fingle European, who happened to be travell
ing with it, when the Sanjacks made an attack.
I told Lanza of our adventures at Kircoote, particularly of our fcruple about
entering the Mofque: he replied, that himfelf had been drawn into conver-
lations on the fame fubjed; once in particular at a great Turk's houfe, who
was a man of fenfe, and a reader of the Prophets, and with whom were four
or five other Turks. The mafter of the houfe took occafion, amidft an aoree-
able converlation, very gravely to afk the father, what was his opinion of their
Prophet.^ On his anlwering, that as Mahomet was not one of the prophets
whom his religion acknowledged, it was not for him to fpeak on the fubjedt:
the Turk with a lefs ferious air,!*replied, " But come, my friend," clappino -
his hand familiarly on his fhoulder, " tell me what your books fay of Ma
homet. Lanza tried to avoid an anfwer \ but the queftion being repeated
with (till more freedom and good humour, and with the word Mahomet^*
inftead of Prophet —"And is it your real defire," faid Lanza, " that 1 fhould
tell you what they declarer" Yes, truly," rejoined the Mujfulman. " Why
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