"أسفار في بلوشستان والسند؛ مع تقرير جغرافي وتاريخي لهذين البلدين، وخريطة." [‎٢‎٤‎٥] (٤٧٦/٢٨٧)

BUSSORAH.
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The day we arrived at Meeana, we were met by a Chuppur, or
mounted messenger, with letters directing us to join General Mal
colm by the nearest cross route, at Muragha, twenty Fursukhs to the
south-westward of Tabreez. We accordingly struck off the high
road leading to the latter city, and at the end of the third march
found ourselves once more in the society of our numerous friends,
from whom we had parted just seven months antecedent at Bombay.
Within this period Captain Christie had traversed a distance com
puted by him at two thousand two hundred and fifty miles, while the
a gg re g a te of my routes amounted to two thousand four hundred and
twelve.
Captain Christie having been selected by His Majesty's Envoy at
the Court of Persia, as one of the officers to remain in that country,
to fulfil that part of the treaty relative to organizing the Persian
troops, he wrote out a hasty Memoir of his journey in the course of
a halt of five or six days made by General Malcolm at Muragha for
the express purpose of affording him an opportunity to do so. I
have annexed an abstract of that report after our separating at
Nooshky, as an Appendix to this Narrative, conceiving it a respect
due to the memory of my friend who, had he lived to revisit India,
would probably have enlarged and amended it * into a form for pub
lication.
The mission moved from Muragha on the 8th of August, and
arrived at Bagdad, by the route of Senna and Kirmanshaw, on the
20th of September following: thence it proceeded by boats down the
Tigris and Shat-ool Arab to Bussorah, where the public service de-
* Captain Christie was unfortunately killed in an attack made by a body of Russian
troops on the Persian camp on the night of the 31s/ of October> 1812. No officer ever
died more universally regretted, as none had ever lived more beloved and respected. His
acquirements and talents were of the very highest order, and his untimely death was not
only felt by his numerous friends to be an irreparable loss, but was justly considered
such, in a public light, to his country and his employers.