'Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.' [‎424] (455/582)

^24 HISTORY OF THE JOASSAMEE PIRATES,
to boats, none were found here. The object of the expedition
was now thought to be sufficiently effected, and the troops and
transports were sent from hence to Bombay, though the frigates
and the cruisers again repaired to the Gulf, where they remained
for several months before they finally dispersed.
Notwithstanding that the object of this expedition against the
Joassamees might be said to be incomplete, inasmuch as nothing
less than a total extirpation of their race could secure the tran
quillity of these seas, yet the effect produced by this expedition
was such, as to make them reverence or dread the British flag for
several years afterwards.
Not long after the termination of this expedition against the
Joassamees, a messenger was deputed by them to settle some dis
puted affair, and to conclude a treaty with the English, through
Mr. Bruce, their agent at Bushire. This was effected on terms
which promised a perpetual respect to the British flag, and was
closed with all the professions of mutual and eternal friendship
which characterize treaties of a higher order among European as
well as Asiatic nations ; where, as in this, the friendship professed
is neither felt nor meant, and where an intention always exists
of breaking the eternal pledge of union the moment it is conve
nient and profitable so to do.
On the return of the Deputy to Ras-el-Khyma, he was asked
by the chief and the heads of the people how he had succeeded in
his mission. He replied, " admirably," under the full expectation
of applause for his conduct in the negotiation, as he said he had
now the satisfaction to assure them that he had made the Joas
samees on a perfect footing of equality with the English them
selves, and that in all their relations to each other they were
henceforth to be considered on a level. Some fanatic hearer of
the assembly, giving an interpretation to this assertion, which was
seemingly not meant by the maker of it, insisted that the faithful
followers of the Prophet, and the only remnant of the worshippers
of the true God left on the earth, had been dishonoured by such