"رحلات في آشور، ميديا، وبلاد فارس، بما في ذلك رحلة من بغداد مروراً بجبل زاغروس وصولاً إلى حمدان، في أكباتانا القديمة، والبحوث في أصفهان وأطلال برسبوليس، ورحلة منها مروراً بشيراز وشابور وصولاً إلى ساحل البحر. وصف البصرة، بوشهر، البحرين، هرمز، ومسقط، وسرد لحملة ضد قراصنة الخليج العربي، مع رسومات توضيحية لرحلة بحرية لنيرتشوس، والمرور ببحر العرب إلى بومباي. [‎٤‎٨‎٣] (٥٨٢/٥١٤)

THE TOWN OF RAS-EL-KHYMA.
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the present day. He replied in the affirmative to all these, offered
us repeated assurances of our being in perfect safety, and express
ed a hope that the affair would be amicably accommodated. We
repeated our assurances also, that no breach of faith would be
made on our parts ; and after some few enquiries and replies ex
changed between us, we rose to depart, and were escorted by
armed men, who cleared a path for us to the boat in the same
way as we had come from it.
The Chief, Hassan ben Rahma, whom we had seen, was a small
man, apparently about forty years of age, with an expression of
cunning in his looks, and something particularly sarcastic in his
smile. One of his eyes had been wounded, but his other features
were good, and his teeth beautifully white and regular, his com
plexion very dark, and his beard scanty, and chiefly confined to
the chin. He was dressed in the usual Arab garments, with a
cashmeer shawl turban, and a scarlet benish, of the Persian form,
to distinguish him from his followers. These were habited in the
plainest garments, with long shirts and keffeas, or handkerchiefs,
thrown loosely over the head; and most of them, as well as their
leader, wore large swords of the old Norman form, with long
straight blades of great breadth, and large cross handles, perfectly
plain; short spears were also borne by some, with circular shields
of tough hide, ornamented with knobs of metal and gilding.
The town of Ras-el-Khyma is situated in lat. 25° 47' north,
and long. 55° 34' east, by the joint observations of the squadron
on the first expedition here, and confirmed by our own at present.
It stands on a narrow tongue of sandy land, pointing to the north
eastward, presenting its north-west edge to the open sea, and its
south-east one to a creek, which runs up within it to the south-
westward, and affords a safe harbour for boats. The town is pro
bably half a mile in length, from north-east to south-west, and a
quarter of a mile in breadth, from the beach of the sea to the
beach of the creek. There appeared to be no continued wall of
defence around it, though round towers and portions of walls are
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