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HISTORY OP THE IXDIAN NAVY. 399
first edition of his famous "East Indian Directory,'' a work
compiled to a great extent from the surveys of the officers of the
Marine, in the year 1808. Nine years hiter appeared the
second edition, and from that time up to the year 1873, three
other editions were publislied. In the hitter year Connnander
A. Dnndas Taylor, of the Indian Navy, an officer second to
none in the service as a scientific surveyor, produced the first
part of his " India Directory," and though, as he modestly states
on his title page, he only claims for his book that it is
" founded" upon Captain liorsburgh's work, it has, in point of
fact, been entirely rewritten.
On the 2nd of January, 1811, the ' Ternatc,' Captain T.
Sniee, and 'Sylph,' Lieutenant Plardy, sailed from Bombay on
a mission to examine the African coast as far south as Zanzibar,
and gather information relative to that state, and adjacent
countries. Having convoyed two merchant vessels, bound for
Mocha, as far as Socotra, they parted company on the 12tli of
January, and, passing Caj)e Guardafui, continued examining the
coast line of Africa, and leaving the Juba River, (or Rio dos
Fuegos of old navigators) on the 9tli of February, anchored at
Patta (in lat. 2° 9' S. long. 41° 2' E.) when (Japtain Smee and
Lieutenant Hardy paid a visit to the ruler, Sultan Hammed, to
whom they presented the gifts and letters from Mv. Duncan,
the Governor of Bombay. This chief, however, was very
unfriendly, and the British officers, after a detention of a whole
day, thought themselves fortunate in being peruiitted to return
to their ships in safety. The natives along this coast are very
treacherous, and on the last occasion on which a British ship
of war had visited them, in February, 1799, when the ' Leopard,'
flagship of Adniiral Blankett, and the 'Doedalus' were proceeding
on a voyage to the Red Sea, Lieutenant j\Iears and several
men were entrapped and killed at the .luba River.* On the
2ord of February, the ' Ternate' and 'Sylph' anchored at
Zanzibar, when the captains paid a visit to the llai^iui, or
Viceroy, of the Imauni of Muscat; while at Zanzibar the ships
fired royal salutes in honour of the capture of Mauritius, an
event, which Captain Smee records, was displeasing to the
Hakim, whose attitude was unkindly towards the British. It
was not until the 7tli of April that the CTOVin'nor returned
(yaptain Suiee's visit, when both the ships dressed and saluteil.
On the 9th the ' Ternate' proceeded to Mocha, where she
arrived on the 2Gth of April, but the 'Sylph' remained behind
to protect the Surat merchants from the extortionate demands
of the Hakim, who expressed his determination to compi'l them
to pay oj)i)0 crowns as the tribute exacted by the luiaimi,
although they had alnnidy ])aid the customary port dues. This
the ' Sylph' prevented, and ultimately convoyed the trading
* See Memoir hy Cai)tain Bissot, of tlic ' Loopurd,' published bv I)ulrvini)le.