"رحلات من الهند إلى إنجلترا: تشمل زيارة إلى الإمبراطورية البورمية، رحلة عبر بلاد فارس، آسيا الصغرى، تركيا الأوروبية وغيرها، في السنوات ١٨٢٥-١٨٢٦، بقلم جيمز إدوارد أليكساندر" [‎٧‎٠] (٤١٢/١٢٣)

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BURMAN EMPIRE.
CHAPTER VIII.
Appearance of Bombay Dock-Yard Visit to the Governor at Malabar Point
Fete at Parnell-House Sail for the Persian Gulf in a Cruiser.
In sailing along the island of Colaba, towards the Apollo Pier, at
which we landed, the appearance of Bombay was singular. The
high and red-tiled roofs of the houses in the fort, and the windows
shaded by wooden verandahs, gave a mean character to the buildings.
We presently opened the middle anchorage-grounds, backed by the
Ghauts, and the island of Elephanta, Butcher Island, &c., and then
the view of the harbour became extremely beautiful. On landing,
we could hardly force our way through the cotton bales with which
the pier was covered. Large and powerful natives of Kutch, with
enormous turbans, were superintending the shipment of the cotton
in the patamars and dows waiting to receive it. We entered the
fort by the Apollo gate, and crossed a good wet ditch. The streets
within were spacious; but from the height of the houses the heat
was excessive, it being the commencement of the hot season. I was
kindly received by Messrs. Ritchie and Stewart.
In the evening I visited the dock-yards, the master-builders in
which, as well as the shipwrights, are all Parsees, the finest and
most enterprizing race in India. A large eighty-gun ship was on the
stocks building for the Imaum of Muscat, who is possessed at
present with the ship-building mania. Our Government allow him
to build as many vessels as he pleases, as it would be an easy matter
to