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'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.' [‎526] (557/582)

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526
DEPARTURE FROM MUSCAT FOR BOMBAY.
masts, sails, and ropes, as well as the orders of command in evo
lutions, are, as in India, a mixture of Arabic, Persian, Hindee,
Dutch, Portuguese, and English; so that the Hindoostanee of a
country ship is quite intelligible to them all. Besides the terms
common to the vessels of India, I remarked some here, which were
evident remains of Portuguese domination, as c Bandeira, Bussola,
and Armada,' for flag, compass, and squadron; which are called
in Hindoostanee, 4 Bowta, Compaz, and Jhoondin Arabic,
4 Beirak, Deira, and Singar and in Persian, 4 Alum, Doora, and
Sengar.'
D ec 5. With a strong and favourable breeze, we left Muscat
and continued our course in the Vestal, under all sail for Bom
bay, after parting with the Challenger, who remained at the former
port. At noon we observed in lat. 24° % north, and were in
long. 58° 40' east, with the visible extremes of the Arabian land
very distant, from south half-east to south-south-west. At 5. SO.
p. m . we opened a remarkable valley, or depression in the hills,
called by sailors the Devil's Gap, and forming a conspicuous
mark for navigators on this coast. It is in lat. about 23° 20'
north, and is distant nearly eleven leagues from Muscat, in a
south-easterly direction, so that it serves to mark the approach to
that port.
The coast of Arabia, from Ras-el-Had, near the entrance to the
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , to Bab-el-Mandeb, at the entrance to the Red Sea,
is very little known indeed to Europeans. I had occasion, in the
year 1815, to make a voyage along a great part of it, in a ship be
longing to a Mohammedan merchant, called by the orthodox name
of 4 Suffenut-ul-Russool,' or Messenger of the Prophet; during
which I had an opportunity of verifying some positions, and add
ing to the illustrations of the ancient Periplus of the Erythrean
Sea. Some of these, which relate more particularly to the eastern
portions of the tract near Ras-el-Had, may therefore be appro
priately introduced here, as belonging to the hydrographical illus-

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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 The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.

The book is written by James Silk Buckingham and contains illustrations and a map at the beginning, entitled "General map of Persia, with the routes pursued by Mr Buckingham in his travels from Bagdad across the mountains of Zagros, through Assyria, Media & Persia, incuding the chief positions of all the ancient cities & modern towns, from the banks of the Tigris to the shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. " and signed "Sidy. Hall, sculpt."

Buckingham is identified on title page as "author of Travels in Palestine and the countries east of the Jordan; Travels among the Arab tribes; and Travels in Mesopotamia; member of the Literary Societies of Bombay and Madras, and of the Asiatic Society of Bengal." Name of manufacturer from p. ii. Portrait of the author signed as follows: "Drawn and Etched by W.H. Brooke, A.R.H.A." and "Aquatinted by R. Havell Jnr." Dedication to Sir Charles Forbes on p. v. Vignette on p. 545. With publication announcement of the second edition of Buckingham's Travels in Mesopotamia on last unnumbered page.

Publication Details: London : Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1829. Printed by S. and R. Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.

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1 volume (545 pages)

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There is a table of contents at the beginning (vii-xvi) and an index at the end of the volume (539-545).

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Dimensions: 283 mm x 220 mm.

Pagination: xvi, 545, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded).

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Title: '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.'
Pages: front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:18, 1:546, iv-r:v-v, back-i
Author: Buckingham, James Silk
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