"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٣‎٩‎٨] (١٧٨٢/١٥٥٣)

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Navigation
Farman or
Vizirial
Letter of
1841.
One of the steamers was fired at by Arabs, and struck, on her first
voyage to Baghdad ; she replied with discharges of grape-shot among the
Arabs herds of buffaloes, killing many.
The chief performance of the flotilla was an ascent of the Euphrates
by the Nitocris and u Nimrod " in 1841 under the command of
Lieutenant C. D. Campbell, LN., assisted by Lieutenant Felix Jones,
I.N., Commander Lynch being then on leave. After carefully examin-
nig the Euphrates from ^Anah to Hilla in a boat, besides surveying the
Tigris from Baghdad to Qurnah and exploring the Shatt-al-Gharaf and
Jahaglah, Lieutenant Campbell left Basrah on the 1st April 1841, passed
Anah on the 7th May, and reached Maskanah on the 31st May.
Lieutenants Campbell and Jones visited the Mediterranean from Mas
kanah and connected that sea chronometricallv with the upper Euphrates.
Commander Lynch having rejoined at Maskanah in August, the descent
began, on which a survey down the Euphrates was made and the
' Nimrod" was sunk by a snag, but was raised again. ; Anah was
reached on the 29th April 1842. The result of this remarkable voyage
was, unfortunately, to demonstrate the practical unnavigability of the
Euphrates by the steamers of the flotilla.
It is not stated that the existence or movements of the flotilla aroused
any distrust or opposition on the part of the Turkish authorities ; and in
,1841 a navigation Farman or Vizirial Letter, supplementary to that of
1834, was obtained at Constantinople. The object was stated to be the
protection* of " the Commandantt of the two steamers ^ in the execution
of his duties. The document referred to the Chesney Expedition;
it cited the Farman of 1834; and it concluded with this direction,
a ressed doubtless to the Pasha of Baghdad, or perhaps to Turkish
la s in geneial. \ ous aurez soin que les susdits bateaux fassent
comme par le pass6 le service de la riviere, a condition qu'il n ; y ait pomt
un inconvenient quelconque et Tentreprise soit favorable aux deux
parties.-"
pagM a'oO.SlO.) 18 ^ 6 " W0Uld traVel Witl1 greater de8 Patch." (Zand March, Volume 1,
season at Maskanah hfTvJ 6 1"' ^ 0 c st . eamers of the flotilla were detained for the
had to be made to prevent 0 l A ^ # PP0 Pa8b5li( l J ail d special arrangements
t TV.. i P 1 event the local Arabs from annoying them.
and if bis nawze"wrn 'r,r^ ari 1 ( ^ r AotiUa was at this time Lieutenant Lynch,
confusion that subseouPTiflv m barman, the circumstance may account for the
British Governm^t to n»ir;w r< f Se '+i? r ^ ^atcd, betweei the title of the
should be mentioned nvers and that of Me ^- Lynch & Co. It
July 1840 to An -mst' IsTl ^TT mil ? ander ^y 11 ^ was absent on sick leave from
among the archives nf H r IortuDate |y 110 copy of the Farman is forthcoming
0 aiClllves of the Government of India or the Government of Bombay.