'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.' [‎33] (66/516)

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destroyed by Atta Beg, then King of Fars, and since then their posses
sions have been annexed to the Persian dominions.
It blew so fresh a gale from the N. W. on the 25th February, that
we were obliged to close-reef our topsails. Finding that we could
make no way against the wind, we determined to anchor under the lee
of an island, and kept our wind, hoping to fetch Kenn, which we for
tunately did; and at about seven o'clock in the evening anchored at
two miles from its shore, in eleven fathoms. One of our Lieutenants
went on shore the next morning, to buy fresh provisions, and it was
the intention of most of the passengers to follow him after breakfast,
when a breeze springing up from the eastward, the ship was again
under weigh, and stood on between the island and the main. The
Lieutenant returned with a small bullock, for which he had paid twelve
rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. , and a sheep which he had purchased for two. He said that
there were about one hundred male inhabitants on the island, besides a
proportionate number of females. In appearance they resembled those
on board the two boats, which we had detained off Cape Musseldom.
The women were veiled, just showing their eyes and a part of the
nose. Their chief they called Emir. They lived in a small mud fort,
chequered at the top with loop-holes for musquetry, and flanked by
two towers, which were entered by an aperture, to which, as it was half
way from the ground, they ascended by a rope. They complained
(and the appearance of the place justified the complaint) that their
houses had been ransacked not long ago, by a set of people, who they
said were white, and they seemed suspicious of the Lieutenant and his
crew. However, as it was difficult for an English Lieutenant, who
only spoke English, and an Arabian Emir, who only knew Arabic, to
hold much intelligible conversation, we could not comprehend much
of the story that was brought on board. The trees which grow on
Kenn are chiefly date; besides which they have banian Merchant of Indian extraction. trees, tama
rinds, and the cotton plant. At six feet from the surface of the earth
they get water, and their habitations are every where well supplied
with wells. Many shells are found here; and it would seem that the
whole surface of the island has been inundated, for large beds of shells
f