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404- HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY. ;
issued instructions directing its prosecution so far back as the
latter part of 1815; the disturbed state of the Gulf, however,
rendered hopeless the task of examining; its shores. The
survey was, in the first instance, entrusted to Captain Philip
Maughan, a veteran hydrographer, who had been the chief
assistant of Captain Ross throughout his arduous and length-
ened survey of the (Jhina Seas between 1806-20. Captain
Maughan entered the Bombay Marine in the year 17V)8 as a
iTjidshipman. He saw much service when a young officer, and
received a ball in tlie leg, which he carried to the grave at his
death in November, 1865, at the advanced age of eighty-two
years. In consequence of this wound Mr. Maughan proceeded
to England, but returned to Bombay overland, being, perhaps,
one of the first to proceed by this route. He brought to India
the news of the peace of Amiens in 1802, making the voyage
from Suez to Bombay in a native craft. In 1820 Captain
Maughan proceeded to the Gulf in command of the 'Discovery,'
a ship of 289 tons and fourteen guns, with Lieutenant J. M.
Guy, as assistant surveyor, in the ' Psyche,' ten-gun brig, of
180 tons. Operations were commenced at Cape Mussendom,
the design being to examine the western, or Arabian, shore,
which had been little frequented by merchant ships, owing to
its being the haunt of pirates from time immemorial, and only
occasionally visited by vessels of war, who avoided the dangers
incidental to traversing one of the most difficult coasts in the
world. In November, 1821, Captain Maughan was forced
tln-ough ill-health to give up the survey, when Lieutenant Guy
succeeded to the command. At this time we find that the
following were the officers attached to the two surveying
vessels, and, if we add to these the names of Lieutenants W.
Denton, S. B. Haines, J. R. Wellsted, H. B. Lynch, J. P.
Sanders, Henry A. Ormsby, F. D. W. Winn, C. E. B. Mitchell,
E. Ethersey, G. B. Kempthorne, and H. Pinching, who were
employed at various times in one or other of the two ships,
certainly we have not often seen a greater combination of
special talent than the list displays :
'Discovery.'— Lieutenant John Michael Guy, Commanding;
Lieutenant Robert Cogan, First-Lieutenant; Lieutenant W. E.
Rogers, Second -Lieutenant ; Lieutenant W. L. Clement, Third-
Lieutenant ; Lieutenant John Houghton, Draughtsman ; Mr.
J. Anderson, Assistant-Surgeon; Mr. E. B. Squire, ]\Iidship-
man ; Mr. Thomas Mullion, Slidshipman ; Mr. H. H. Whitelock,
Midshipman.
' Psyche.'—Lieutenant George Barnes Brucks, (Commanding
Lieutenant W. Lowe, First-Lieutenant; Lieutenant J. H.
Rowband, Second-Lieutenant; Lieutenant Thomas E.Rogers,
Third-Lieutenant ; Mr. W. Spry, Assistant-Surgeon ; Mr.