'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.' [‎405] (478/516)

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does your master like this, and how does he like that? and so on. — Tired with
being questioned, he said, " He like all very well j but one thing he not like —
" old man ask too many questions." Upon this he got up laughing, leaving
the old gentleman to find out that he had been speaking to the Ambassador in
person.
If the whole history of his residence in England were worth the narrative,
it is evident that this note might be greatly lengthened; but, perhaps, that
which would afford the most amusement, would be the publication of his own
journal, which he regularly kept, during his absence from Persia; and which
on his return there, was read with great avidity by his own countrymen.
NOTE B. — Page 30.
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I am indebted to Mr. Bruce, Resident of the East India Company at Bushire,
for the following intelligence concerning the Island of Ormus: —
" Ships may go close to the fort, which stands on a low sandy point, where
" a mole has been formed, that enables boats to go up to the gates. There
is "no other water on the island but that which is collected in reservoirs
" during the rainy season from November to February. The island is covered
44 with ruins, among which the reservoirs are found, but most of them are in
a state of decay. We collected some specimens of rock-salt, of which the
sod of this island is principally composed. Its high peaks, which have a par-
" ticular white appearance, as if covered with snow, are in fact composed of
" rock-salt. The only habitable place in Ormus at present, is the fort, which
" is said to have been built by the Portuguese General Albuquerque, in 1507,
" when he took the island from the Persians; it is now in tolerable repair and
" still possesses some very large Portuguese cannon.
" The Imaum of Muscat keeps a garrison here of 120 Nubian slaves and 80
" Arabs, to prevent the Joassimi pirates from taking possession of it. One of
" the inhabitants with whom I conversed, said that silver crucifixes are fre-
" quently found amongst the ruins, and that only a few years ago an old man
" had died, who had been an inhabitant in the time of the Portuguese.
44 In clear weather the islands of Larrak, Kishmis, and the fort at Gombeioon
" are to be seen from the roads j fish is found here in gieat plenty, as indeed
44 it is all over the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . , '