"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"". [‎٢‎٤‎٥] (٣٩٠/٢٧٤)

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troops, stores, and horses necessary before
finally starting to attack; but the transports
were all kept busy constructing rafts with
casks and spars to disembark the men and
horses when required, and the vessels of war in
barricading their tops and bulwarks with ham
mocks and hay-packs, to conceal riflemen and
protect their people at the guns.
Matters were thus progressing when, much
to the satisfaction of all, Sir James himself,
with some Scinde horse and the dragoons he
found stuck fast at the mouth of the river, most
unexpectedly made their appearance. Signal-
books were then eagerly consulted, and many
a passing man-of-war's boat hailed for earliest
information of the advance up the river.
T\ ith Sir James came, however, again, very
mournful news—the naval chief. Captain
Ethersey, commodore commanding the squa
dron of the Indian navy serving in the Persian
Gulf, having committed suicide at Eushire,
by shooting himself, exactly one week after
General Stalker's sad example. The fate of
these two officers, under such circumstances,
and occurring at. such a time, caused a feel-