10 
BOMBAY TO BUSHIRE. 
point of land. As we crept along the coast, we marked some ruined 
walls embosomed among the date trees.* At sunset we just dis¬ 
covered the low land on which stands the town of Bushire. In the 
calms which followed during the night, we were unable to make 
much way, and on the morning of the 14th we were still at the same 
distance from Bushire , as on the preceding evening. We fired two 
shots at a small vessel, to bring her too, but without effect. These 
boats are employed mostly in carrying wood to Bushire. They find it 
on the coast, probably in recesses of the land, for we could scarcely see 
a shrub in the whole passage of the gulph. 
At about half past three o’clock on the 14th October, we anchored in 
Bushire roads, where we found one of the Company’s cruizers, and a mer¬ 
chantman. Before we cast anchor, a boat came off from the shore, the 
captain of which, a little sharp Persian, answered Sir Harford Jones’s 
interrogations with much vivacity, and swore to the truth of every asser¬ 
tion ten times over by his head and eyes. Having learnt that the East 
India Company’s assistant resident, Mr. Bruce, was at Bushire , the 
Envoy sent a letter to desire his attendance on board immediately, and at 
the same time requesting that he would notify the arrival of the mission 
to the Sheik , Abdallah Resoul, who then governed Bushire. We 
could see Avith our glasses Mr. Bruce’s residence, which was at some 
distance without the town, and could observe that the letter had been 
safely delivered; for in a few minutes we discovered Mr. Bruce on 
horseback, riding full speed to the boat. In an hour he was on 
board. 
He commenced by informing us of a report of the death of our King, 
which had reached Bushire from Bagdad ; and which, originating from 
an article in a French paper, had been circulated in Persia by the 
French, for an obvious purpose. The Envoy delivered to Mr. Bruce, 
* Probably the ruins of Reshire. 
