'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎247] (288/562)

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own opinion, whether it fhould pleafe or difpleafe him ; that therefore, if 1758.
he chofe to be on good terms with us, it was neceflary he fhould reconcile
himfelf to our reloJution. He made a civil reply, and came into our yacht.
We recapitulated the particulars of his ill behaviour, and plainly told him*
that a continuance of it, could not end to his advantage, either in refpecft
to his mafter at Baffora, the Bajha of Baghdad or ourfelves. He now
laid afide his haughtinefs, and faid, he was lorry for what had pafled, and
promifed a better look-out for the future. We finifhed our lefture by
advifing him to drink coffee and water only, gave him a diih of the firft
and relblved he fhould have from us nothing elfe.
No villages, corn fields or pafture land nothing but wild fhrubs on the
banks of the river, and the Defert is at a quarter of a mile diftance. Numbers
of partridges and pidgeons ftill. We this day were very bufy in making
bounces to give a grand falute to Aly Aga\ and, as they may be ufeful to
us againft an enemy in the room of hand-grenades, we propofed to prepare
a number of them, loaded with flugs of lead and iron.
At eight at night we anchored; at eleven weighed ; at a quarter paft
eleven dropped anchor again, the Chocarda calling to us, that our men were
run away, which was both falfe and improbable, being fo far from their
home, and having had no wages ; they had laid themfelves down on the
Ihore, being weary and in want of reft, after wading through much deep water.
The weather from nine in the morning till five in the afternoon, was too
warm to be pleafant, yet not fo hot as to give Eaji Indians great reafon to
complain. Twelve at night, wind N. W. by N. and cold. Meflrs. Doidge
and Alms, who flept on the poop during the firft watch, were glad to get.
into the cabbin in the middle and morning watches, on account of the
cold; the fharpnefs of the night air made me cough terribly, but this night
being tolerably well, I began to watch. Tht Pelicans, which on rifingfrom.
the water make a great noife with flapping of their wings, before wc-
were accuftomed to them, gave our watchmen fome little, alarm.
We got about twenty miles to-day. There was no horizon for an ob--
fervation at noon.—The boats which the Arabs ufe hereabouts differ from,
thofe I defcribed at Bajfora only in the fhape; they are made like our Lon
don wherries, and are paddled on by two men, but if large, by four.
At five in the morning our Trackers arofe from their fieep, and began May 4,
to track. Wind W. N. W. The river very crooked. At two in the after
noon, we had paffed by feveral fmall iflands. At three we made our veffels
fall to the fhore, the Sandal being behind j at a quarter paft four we began,
to track again.
Laft night our Chocarda fupped with us, and thereby deprived us,, for
awhile, of our bottle of claret. To-day he dined with us, and made us
undergo