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Expedition against 4. Tho first mistaken step was in the year 1706 when our forces joined
th# Kaab.
the Turks to go against the Chaub on shore ; they landed in a very bad wet
place, when tho Men had great difficulty to march, and which was too groat
a distance from tho place to he attacked, aud consequently very difficult to
bring up the Artillery. The next step was attacking tho Fort before tho
Turks had joined; who certainly from their numbers should have begun the
i attack, and been assisted by our Forco; this not being the case wo were most
shamefully beat and lost many of our people.
6. By your former advices it appears that soon aftor this Carim Caun
Karim Khan.
becomes Protector to the Chaub claims him as his subject and forbids our joining
the Turks to go against him, and at the same time pretends an inclination to
accommodate matters between us and the Chaub ; but in the course of treating
on this subject, he shews himself clearly to have no design for our interest;
Skipp goes to him in a publio character at his own desire ; is treated very
indifferently not suffered to appear before him, besides many other slights,
when Skipp had orders to come away, he is then somewhat more com-
plaisant leaves the treaty about the Chaub and desires our assistance against
the Arabs, and at last he says he will give us five lacks of Rupees for losses
we sustained by the Chaub’s captures, he at the same time desires Assistance to
take Ormuse.
6. We are much surprized to find that our servants were not sensible of
the ill-treatment we have received from Carim Caun on every occasion, more
particularly in that one of our trade at Bushire, which he has obstructed all
in his power for some time past, and at last to convince all the world of his
bad inclinations to us, he prohibits the merchants carrying any ready money
there, and orders what they buy there must be paid for by way of barter in
goods the produce of Persia which he knew was impossible for us to comply
with, the above and the unsettled state of Bushire itself owing in some measure to
a dispute between the Governor of that place and the Caun who threatned every
day to send an army against him, the consequence of which would most probably
be the loss of our effects there. These are such striking circumstances that our
Agent and Council ought immediately to have withdrawn our servants and
effects from thence when they would have been independent of the Caun, and
if be bad wanted to treat, must have then sent people to you for that
purpose—another great advantage would have acrued from this step. The
Chaub would have been convinced that the Caun had no longer any influence
over us, nor could he do us any barm. You might have attacked the Chaub
in any manner you chose or joined other power against the Caun, or suffered
Meer Mahanna to attack him in any place that he might chuse.
Xxpeditioo against 7. We shall consider the expedition you have engaged into Ormuse
Ormsx.
] to recover the plundered effects taken from the Islamabad by the Shaik
of that place. We have observed that the Caun promised to give you
five lacks of Rupees on the Chaubs account, and you were to assist him to take
Ormuse, where he expects a great deal of plunder—there does not appear any
written agreement between you and the Caun before the ships were ordered to
go to Ormuse and yet you say the Caun is to have half the plunder, to be
delivered at Bushire, and express your apprehensions that disputes may arise
between you in case the Forces should be successful about the amount, which
if it be short of his expectation he will imagine we have taken more than our
share, this will undoubtedly be the case if you was to send even so much.
You Beem at last to reconcile this intricate affair to yourselves by saying that