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suffering all the time under the fever of the country, till, his 
strength being exhausted, he was compelled to return to 
Muscat. Here, a Jew, the agent of the English Consul, who 
had previously behaved very well to him, availing himself of 
a time when he was too ill to offer any opposition, compelled 
him to re-embark for Bender Abassy. The stormy weather 
obliged them to cast anchor in the harbour of Bender Said, 
on the extreme frontier of Beloochistan, where the Indian 
character of the vegetation struck his attention, and made 
him desire to land and explore the country; but the ship- 
master hoisted sail suddenly, and then set him down on the 
Island of Ormuz. He did not, however, relinquish the 
thought of Beloochistan ; and, consequently, on arriving at 
Bender Abassy, he directed his steps towards Minah, but 
Was compelled to come back, and regain Shiraz, through the 
interior of Laristan. He reached that place in a dying state ; 
but feeling a little better, he once more started for Ispahan, 
and with difficulty gained it, having even gathered some 
plants by the way! The anxious and skilful attentions of 
the good fathers at Djulfa, and of an Italian physician, named 
Dr. Bertoni, proved ineffectual to restore his health, which 
became daily worse ; for his constitution, which had endured 
So many shocks, was now irrecoverably broken. Still he 
always cherished the hope of restoration. His plan had 
originally been to visit Herat, Cabul, and Kandahar, but the 
Political condition of these countries put a bar to these plans, 
and he now only aimed at returning to Constantinople the 
following year, through Bussorah, Bagdad, Mossoul, and the 
mountains of Media, During one of those respites which 
his disease afforded, on the 5th of July, 1838, he ventured 
courageously on commencing an excursion into the country 
of the Bucktiaris, in the hope that its fresh mountain air 
might prove beneficial to restoring his decayed strength. 
On the 8th, he was slowly climbing one of the summits of 
Dalinkou, when a chief of the country, to whom he 
“arried letters, counselled him to proceed no farther, because 
of the insecurity of the roads, and he sorrowfully returned to 
