"رحلة ثانية عبر بلاد فارس، أرمينيا وآسيا الصغرى إلى القسطنطينية، بين سنتي ١٨١٠ و١٨١٦. مع يوميات الرحلة مروراً بالبرازيل وبومباي وصولاً إلى الخليج العربي. مع تقرير لإجراءات السفارة البريطانية تحت إدارة السير جور أوسيلي، البارونيت، فارس وسام الأسد والشمس، مع خريطتين ونقوش من تصميم المؤلف." [‎٢‎٥] (٥١٦/٥٨)

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coast, which is open to nautical surveys, the deficiency of geographical
knowledge is great; and although the instructions in directories. East
India pilots, &c. for sailing along this coast, are numerous, and although
we were supplied with charts " from the latest surveys and best au
thorities," yet we were obliged to depend almost entirely on our own
observations and our own " look out a-head," which after all, is the
seaman's best security.
We found that opinions were very various upon the nature and
length of our passage up the Gulf at the present season of the year.
At Bombay we were told twenty days would be the utmost; our direc
tory informed us that February is one of the good months for sailing to
Persia; and the Governor himself assured us that the longer we stayed
at Bombay the shorter would be our voyage: but when we arrived on
board we were astonished to hear different intelligence from our pilot,
a lieutenant in the Bombay marine, who affirmed that we should be
lucky to get to Bushire in five weeks.
The first days of our navigation confirmed the opinion of the pilot,
for we had the wind at N. W.; but on the 8th of February we enjoyed
a delightful breeze which filled every sail, and which the directory
stated to be common at this season in the Gulf of Cutch.
On the 9th of February, we saw at a considerable distance land
which we all took for Cape Arubah, and on the next day in the morn
ing we were near an insulated piece of land, considerably higher at one
extremity than the other, which almost all concluded to be the island
of Ashtola; but the appearance of the latter is so remarkable, (being a
low slip of land, so equal in its surface, that it almost forms a parallel
line with that of the horizon,) that I was enabled to say, from having
been at anchor close to it in my former voyage, that Ashtola must be
still a-head, and that this land must be the real Arubah. This proved
to be the case, for at noon we saw Ashtola, and passed it at a distance
of about four leagues. * In the evening we made Cape Passenza,
* At nine o'clock in the morning, the extremes of Arubah bore from N. 23° E. to N. 44' E.
and our distance from it by cross-bearings was seventeen miles. The latitude of the
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