'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.' [‎532] (563/582)

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DEATH OF THE BOATSWAIN An officer responsible for the equipment on a ship and overseeing the work of the ship's crew. .
The wind continued a fresh gale throughout the day, but the
sky grew clearer aloft towards night. As it still came in squalls,
however, of considerable violence while they lasted, and the sea
had not abated, we close-reefed, and made the ship snug.
D ec . 12th.—The morning opened with a clear sky, but the
wind was still fixed at east-north-east, the Gulf of Cutch being
still open to us, and the swell of the sea high, though more
regular than before. During the forenoon we had an opportunity
of taking a set of lunar distances for confirming our longitude by
chronometer ; and the mean of two sets and three single sights,
alternately taken by the commander and myself, gave us a longi
tude of 65° 9!7 r east, at nine a.m . At noon we observed in lat. 21°
23' north, and were in long. 65° 42 / east, by chronometer ; which
was a sufficiently near agreement with the lunar distance to prove
the accuracy of both, differing only ten miles in their results,
when the reckoning was brought up at noon.
We had perceived some regularity in the periods of the
ship's coming up and falling off, which, as she was always close-
hauled, seemed to prove a diurnal and nocturnal change, in
fluenced most probably in this slight degree by the land and sea-
breezes which prevail along the western coast of India, Guzerat,
and Scind during these months. In the evening the boatswain An officer responsible for the equipment on a ship and overseeing the work of the ship's crew.
of the ship, who had been ill of a relapse into fever, from in
temperance, and had been confined to his cabin for a few days
only, died without pain, in the flower of his age.
D ec . 13th.—The morning presented us with the same unfa
vourable wind as before, with which we could not keep our course
for Bombay. In consequence of the wind still hanging so far
easterly, and our having on board only six days' provisions for the
crew, it was thought necessary to reduce all hands to half allow
ance, until a prospect was afforded of our being able to reach
some port of the coast of Malabar, where we might refresh.
The body of the boatswain An officer responsible for the equipment on a ship and overseeing the work of the ship's crew. , being opened by the surgeon of the