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Bombay, who were well aware of the animosity of Mr. Moore, the
Agent, ag-ainst Mr. Skipp on account of the divergence of their PersiaD
policies, found Mr. Skipp guilty of an error of judgment only, removed
his suspension, and restored him to his standing, at the same time,
however, requiring him a to make good the difference on the price of
the shaloons and the amount of Mr, Lysterns debt to the warehouse. 33
The Bombay Government, while they thought Mr. Skipp's suspension
not unwarranted in the circumstances, " highly condemned" the Agent
and Council for having ordered it without allowing Mr. Skipp any
opportunity of explaining hi? conduct.
Overland commuuication between Basrah and Europe,
1757-73.
We have already alluded, in connection with Mr. Shaw's case, to Mails,
the interest shown by the Court of Directors of the East India Company
in the efficient maintenance of overland communication between Europe
and India by way of Basrah. Here we may add that on the same
occasion they described the care of this u important channel" as an
essential part of the Resident's duty and ordered the Bombay Govern
ment, in the following terms, to insist on his exact performance of the
same: " whoever in future is appointed to Basrah (you) will keep
" a watchful eye over his conduct; and if he ever fails in a punctual
" correspondence with us or yourselves, or is ever found to delay advices
" to or from India, call him immediately to Bombay ; for early advices
" may prove of the greatest consequence to our affairs, in time of war
" especially. "
The Basrah overland route was frequented, to a limited extent, by Travellers.
European travellers, generally servants of the East India Company,
between Europe and the East; but to those using it without proper
arrangements it sometimes proved dangerous. A Captain Ivers was
plundered in September 1757 on his way from Basrah to Aleppo;
and at the beginning of 1758 Mr. Barton, a retired East India merchant,
who after living for some time the life of a country gentleman at
home, had determined to revisit India, was robbed and very nearly
killed between Aleppo and Baghdad. Dr. Ives and his companions,
who were in Turkish 'Iraq from April to June 1758, and the
scientific traveller Niebuhr, who spent in the country the period from
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