"رحلة أوترام وهافلوك في بلاد فارس، بقلم النقيب ج. هـ. هانت، ٧٨ هايلاندرز. يوجد في المقدمة ملخص عن التاريخ الفارسي، تقرير عن الاختلافات المتعددة بين إنجلترا وبلاد فارس واستفسار عن أصل الحرب السابقة. بقلم جورج تاونسيند، مؤلف كتاب "ملخص أوروبا الحديثة لراسل"". [‎٢‎٤‎٣] (٣٩٠/٢٧٢)

IN PERSIA. 243
ing at defences sufficiently formidable before
our appearance in the river, and which, before
starting from Bushire, Captain Maisonneuve
and our allies of the Sibylle had warned us
could not be despised, and (from what they
had seen during a visit to the place, from
which they were just returned) even expressed
a conviction that, with our present means,
we could not take them. That a general wish
therefore prevailed to exchange the Idleness on
board ship for an active interruption of the
Persian industry, may easily be believed.
The head-quarters of the Highlanders arrived
in the Berenice steamer on the 15th, having
also with them Brigadier-General Havelock
and the staff oi the second division. The regi
ment had lost one of its young lieutenants
from fever (Lieutenant Sinclair) but a day or
so before its departure. Wholly unacclimatized j
and arrived only a few weeks from England,'
the climate and exposure proved speedily fatal
to the young soldier.
Before night closed on the 16th of March, a
tioop of the 14th light dragoons and the
greater portion of the expected comers were at
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