Volume 2

The history of Hindostan; its arts, and its sciences, as connected with the history of the other great empires of Asia ... / By the author of Indian antiquities [T. Maurice].

  • Thomas Maurice
Date:
1795-1798[-1799]
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Credit: The history of Hindostan; its arts, and its sciences, as connected with the history of the other great empires of Asia ... / By the author of Indian antiquities [T. Maurice]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ G96 ] ' vlvccl the spirits of the ilcct. Such of the crews, however, as were flisphited or worn out with their past fatigues, were permitted to rejoin the army; and others, fresh and vigorous, were drafted from it, who cheerfully supplied their place on board the ships. Thus re- freshed aird recruited, the fleet continued its piogiess with little worthy of notice along the dreary Gedrosian coast to the next Im- portant station, Malana”, MoraJiJ distant above'sixtcai hundred stadia, or about one hundred miles, from the Arabis. I hey next combated the horrors of a coast Inhabited by none but sax age Icthyo- phagl, (or flsh-eaters,) and extending seven thousand four hundred stadfa, or four hundred and fifty miles, in a right line: a coast where they suffered every dreadful variety of human misery, from hunger, which they found nothing but fish and a scanty supply of meat, dis- gusting from its strong fishy flavour, to appease; and fiom thiist, which they could only slake with muddy or brackish xxatci. They met, however, at Mosarna, on this coast, with one invaluable blessing, a Gedrosian pilot of good experience in these seas, whose skdl and attention diminished the perils of the future voyage, as well as quickened its progress. The termination of this forlorn region and of their miseries they found at Badis, the Cape Jask of our maps, and they now with rapture began to coast along the bcautilul and fertile shores of Carmania, where they found abundance of gram and fruits, and that still greater luxury, the purest water. At length the fleet arrix^ed at the river Anamis, at the mouth of which stood a toxvn, called by the Greeks llarmuzeia, synonymous with the modern Ormiis, xvhich has since conferred its name on the xvhole Persian Gulph' and is justly deduced by our learned geographer fVom the radical xvord Hormuzd, or Oromasdes, the beneficent deity of the ancient Persians. At Harmuzeia the harassed crews of the whole fleet exultingly went on shore, and reflected with plcasuie on their final escape from so many and such urgent perils. A camp was formed on the spot, and strongly fortified with a rampart and ditch; the vessels were also hauled on shore, as well for security as that