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408 HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY.
' Benares ' returned to Bombay with a costly cargo of spices.
In October, Commander Bracks rejoined the ' Benares,' with
Lieutenant Haines as Assistant-Surveyor, and Mr. Midship-
man H. A. M. Drought joined the ship. On the 8th of
that month the ' Benares ' sailed from Bombay to resume the
survey of the Gulf. She went to Bushire, and from that
place sailed for the pearl banks off Bahrein. On the 19th
of November the survey was conjmenced, according to the
journal, at Jez-el-Suffie, whence they went to Sherarow,
anchored at Guffoy, and sailed to Arlat, Arzennie, Dalmy, and
other places ; returned to Bassadore on the 3rd of December,
sighting Seir Aboneid and Boraosa on the way. Left on the
18th of December to survey off Bassadore, and after three days
surveying on the flat, sailed to survey the Mekran coast. Began
dueeastof Ormuz on the 6th of January, 1829. On the 19th of
January, anchored near a shoal to survey it, in 6 fathoms, Koe
Mubarrack rock bearing N. 45° W. On the 22nd of January
engaged surveying Jask Bay. On the 8th of February broke
off the survey at Charbar, and sailed to Muscat, when Lieu-
tenant Bracks left, being sick. Lieutenant Haines resumed
the survey at Charbar, on the 20th of February, and surveyed
to Kurrachee, which the ' Benares ' left on the 12th of April,
and returned west to Guadel Bay, whence she sailed on the
30th of April for Bombay.
Several papers of great value and interest, descriptive of the
Persian Gulf, were contributed by ofhcers of the Service.
Lieutenant Bracks wrote a "Memoir Descriptive of the Navi-
gation of the Persian Gulf."* Lieutenant Kempthorne sup-
plied to the Journals of the Royal and Bombay Geographical
Societies, articles on the " Identification of Places Visited by
Nearchus' Fleet ;" on " The Ancient Commerce of the Persian
Gulf;" and on "A Visit to the Ruins of Tahrie,"t near
Congoon. Lieutenant H. H. Whitelock, of the ' Discovery/
wrote " An Account of the Arabs of the Pirate Coast," and an
admirable paper, entitled " Descriptive Sketch of the Islands
and Coast at the entrance of the Persian Galf."J
On the cessation of the monsoon, in October, 1829, the
'Benares' was again employed on a survey not less important
than that of the Persian Gulf, and equally admirable and
accurate in its execution ; we refer to that of the Red Sea.
Of the officers who had served under Brucks and Haines, only
Pinching, Winn, Young, and Campbell, were engaged in this
arduous task, under the command of Captain Thomas Elwon.
* Bombay Selections, No. 24, pp. 527-634.
t Royal Geog;raphical Society's Journal, Vol. V., p. 263. Transactions of the
Bombay Geographical Society, Vol. I., p. 294, and Vol XIII., p. 125.
X Royal Geographical Society's Journal, Vol. VIII., p. 170. Bombay Geo-
graphical Society's Transactions, Vol. I., p. 113. In the latter volume, pages 32-
54, may also be found Lieutenant Whitelock's paper on the Pirate Coast.