'A second journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, between the years 1810 and 1816. With a journal of the voyage by the Brazils and Bombay to the Persian Gulf. Together with an account of the proceedings of His Majesty's embassy under Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart. K.L.S. With two maps, and engravings from the designs of the author.' [‎4] (37/516)

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4 RIO DI JANEIRO.
came to an anchor near the fortress of Santa Cruz, at the entrance of B io
di Janeiro, they looked in vain for something which might differ fiom all
that they had hitherto seen ; and they were no otherwise struck with the
magnificent scenery that surrounded us, (its wild shaped mountains,
clothed to their very summits with the richest vegetation,) than by saying,
it looked like their own jungle in Mazanderan. Persians in general take
no delight in woody scenery, and the word j en gel, which they use to
denote it, inspires them with the same ideas that we may have of a
wilderness.
The Regent of Portugal politely intimated his wish, that the two Am
bassadors and their suites might be his guests during their stay, and
ordered that a house should be got in readiness for their reception. His
Royal Highness's kitchen, cellar, servants, horses, and carriages, were
placed at their disposal, and the whole conduct of the Portuguese court
on this occasion was in every way handsome. We were conducted to our
audience by His Majesty's Minister, Lord Strangford, and were much
gratified by our reception. The Prince reminded the Persian Ambassador,
that the Portuguese had formerly been the near allies of his country; that
he was happy to be able, through his medium, to offer to the Persian
Monarch a renewal of that friendship which had existed between their
two states. Indeed, the relations between Portugal and Persia were
at one time very intimate ; for when the Portuguese held great sway in
India, they were also possessed of the islands of Ormus, Kishmish,
Larak, and Bahrein, in the Persian Gulph: on the Persian shore, the
ports and fortresses of Bender Abassi, and Congo, also belonged to
them; but these possessions they lost between the years 1610 and 1625.
As for a considerable time afterwards they occupied Muscat in
Arabia, the possession of which was of great consequence to their
commerce in the Persian Gulph, they agreed to cede all their preten
sions to their possessions on the coast of Persia, provided they might
have a right to fish on the pearl banks of Bahrein, and to receive half
of the custom-house duties levied at Congo, a port about three davs
distance from Ormus.