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Mr. Ellis particular Directions to undersell thorn, and endeavour to render
this Branch of Trade disadvantageous, by all fair means that ho could possibly
invent.
I have dono all that laid in ray power to procure the Quantity of Carmcnia
Wool indented for by the Hon’ble Court of Directors pr. Prince Henry, but
have hitherto been able to collect no more than two hundred and sovontccn
maunds, though by a Letter which I reced. from Carmcnia the 2nd instant,
four hundred maunds more is upon the Road ; and your Honour, etc., may
bo assured of my best endeavours to provido all that may bo procurable,
so as to have a considerable Quantity in readiness to transmit pr. next safe
conveyance.
It gives me much concern to advise your Honour, etc., with the melan­
choly news of the agents, Mr. Wont’s, and Mr. Perceval’s being dead : We
had an extremely unwholesome season from the Beginning of March last,
until the latter end of August during which time great numbers of the
country inhabitants died, as did several of our Sepoys, and Topasses, and I
myself was twice so far gone that the Surgeon did not imagine I could
recover ; nor indeed I can't say I am yet, (though the weather begins to be
pretty tolerable) as I am still troubled with an ague and fever, which comes
upon me every third day. All the deceased persons* effects were put under
the Hon’ble Company’s seal immediately after their departure, in the presence
of Captain Kerr, and Doctor Forbes, and I have wrote to the Register of the
Major's Court concerning the disposal of what belongs to Messrs. Went and
Perceval, as they both died intestate.
All the Rogoms, Orders, and Grants, that are of any consequence relating
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transition of to the Hon'ble Company’s priviledges in Persia have been carefully collected,
rogoma and firmana. j have not been able to get a capable person to translate them,
which obliges me by necessity to defer executing this Part of your Honour, etc.,
commands longer than I should otherwise dare to do, though as our Linguist’s
brother (who arrived a few days ago from Bundereok) is a sensible man,
and speaks the English and Persian Languages exceeding well, I hope
through his assistance to have this Business performed in a correct manner.
Time enough to transmit pr. first conveyance.
As to a disoription of Angar which your HonT etc., direct to be given
Dworiytlon of
Bahrain and I shall mention it Word for Word from a Letter which the Agent wrote me
▲agim.
when he was upon the Spot in the month of March last.—** It is an Island
somewhat larger than Bombay intirely covered with Rocks, destitute of
Inhabitants or animals of any kind, Sandy, and barren of all Vegetables
excepting two Trees, and tufts of hard prickly Grass, and the water is intoler­
ably bad unless it be a small quantity contained in two or three old tanks
which stand toward the Kishmiss side of the Island.” From this account I
humbly apprehend your Honour, etc., will esteem angar a very unfit place
to settle at, and your objections to our taking possession of any of the Per­
sian Islands, (which I have maturely considered) are certainly founded upon
the strongest Probability ; therefore with great Submission, I presume to give
it as my Opinion, that the Watering Place at the South-East Point of KiBhmiss
without having any thing to do with the other part (called by the Persian
Tezera Draws) would prove more convenient, and answer the Hon’ble Com­
pany's Purpose, (which I take to be the Security of their Effects and Servants)
far better than a larger Plaoe, provided Matters could be managed so as to
procure a Grant of it from the King or from Nesseir Caun, who is at present