'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [‎122] (289/524)

RECENT TOUR ROUND THE NORTHERN
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where brushwood Is got in any quantity, that is on the Western bank
about two-thirds of the distance from the Southern end.
The Island of Boobian is a desert. There are no date trees as mark
ed on the chart. There is no habitation and no fresh water. This
Khore now runs East North-east round the top of Boobian, and opens
into the Khore Abdullah ; but a small off-shoot from it about 40 feet
wide runs North ^ West.
March 9M.—Still blowing a gale of wind from the North-west.
Track up this off-shoot, which is about 5 miles long, and in the after
noon anchor at its opening into a much larger Khore. This larger Khore
is about 250 yards broad, and opens from the Khore Abdullah.
March \<dth .—The wind had abated a little in the night and become
slightly favourable, so we had sailed in a North-westerly direction along
this larger Khore. •
7 a. m. —Said to be about four miles from Bunder Zobaire. The
Hill Isphuan is West South-west of us and about 15 miles off. This
Khore is still about 250 yards broad with about 5|- fathoms of water,
and inhabited by shoals of porpoises. Half a mile from Bunder Zobaire
it ends and divides into four or five small creeks like the fingers
of a hand. We drift up one of those creeks and arrive at a hard bank
called Bunder Zobaire. There are no houses. Here our baggage
animals are waiting for us. We told the Zobaires to make the best of
their way to this place. They were all armed with flintlocks, but
besides that, each man purchased a spear, and one fine afternoon,
without telling any one, they slipped away from Koweit. By skirting
the bay and then going North, they escaped the Arabs, and after tra
velling a day and night arrived here in safety.
Mounted at 1 p. m. and rode North-west by North along the bed
of an old canal called Nar-el-Ashre, to the ruins of Ashereah, which
we reached at 4-30, and encamped for the night.
The rate of travelling to-day 3J miles an hour. Ashereah is said by
some to be the remains of the ancient Bussorah. It consists of a
mass of mounds of earth, bricks and broken vases, as such as are com
monly used here for holding water. The bricks have the same ap
pearance as those at Brimeah. There is one pillar about 50 feet high
still standing. It seems to have formed the corner of a building, for
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