"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. [‎٥‎٣‎٣] (٥٨٢/٥٦٤)

DEATH OF A MARINE. 533
ship, was found to have the kidneys greatly enlarged, the bowels
ulcerated all over, and the liver almost destroyed,—all of which
were the effects of hard drinking, to which this young man was
dreadfully addicted. On being sewn up, his corpse was carefully
washed and dressed in clean linen by his shipmates ; and being
wrapped up in a hammock, with two cannon-balls at his feet for
sinking, the funeral service was read over him, to which all
attended with due decorum, and his remains were committed to
the deep.
This ceremony had scarcely been ended, before a report was
brought up of the death of a marine, who had been sent on board
sick from the Challenger, to be taken to the hospital at Bombay.
This man, whose name was Edward Lyon, was of a good family,
and in his youth had run through a fortune, in premature de
bauchery. The efforts of his friends to reclaim him had been so
often tried and disappointed, that they at length abandoned him
to his fate ; and after passing by degrees into the lowest walks of
life, the ranks of the marine corps brought him up, and he
became fixed in the waist of a man-of-war. Among his relatives,
he had a brother a rear-admiral in the British Navy, and a sister
married to the captain of the Leander of fifty guns ; but he had
not now a being near him to close his eyes, or even the common
feelings of a messmate drawn forth to pity his untimely end.
These last offices of humanity were performed by strangers, who
were neither moved by his history, nor warned by his fate. His
body was also opened by the surgeon, and found to be affected
nearly in the same way as that of the boatswain, and from the
same causes. The funeral service was read over his corpse, which
was secured in the usual way, and committed to the deep.
Our lunar distances were again repeated before noon, and the
mean of their results gave a longitude of 66° 51 east, at ten a.m.,
when at noon we observed in latitude 20° ^ north, and were in
longitude 67° 3' east, by chronometer.