"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"". [‎٢‎٦‎١] (٣٩٠/٢٩٠)

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hands, as it was afterwards ascertained that
the Arabs mercilessly butchered every one of
the helpless wretches that they discovered.
The few found by us were taken care of-—
though so perfectly misunderstood was this
kindness at first, that, imagining they were
only being reserved for greater torture, they for
some time resisted all kind of treatment—even
water from the hands of their captors,—a
terrible but unmistakable evidence of their
own brutality in warfare. Our own casualties
were but ten men killed, and one officer (Lieu
tenant Harris, I.N.) and thirty men wounded.
The officer belonged to the Semiramis. This
small amount of loss is the more extraordinary
as the Persian gunnery was anything but
despicable, the ships being hulled in many
places by their shot, and rigging cut in all
directions, as well as boats smashed; three
hundred musket-bullets were also lodged in
the broadside of the Feroze alone, and many
others must also have entered the haypacks
by which her sides were protected — these
doubtless saved many lives from small-arm
fire. The Persian guns got the range of the