JOURNEY THROUGH PERSIA, 
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CHAR I. 
BOMBAY TO BUSHIBE. 
DEPARTURE FROM BOMBAY-—LAND OF GUZERAT—COAST OF ME£- 
RAN—BALOUCHES—ENTRANCE OF THE GULPH OF PERSIA— 
IMAUM OF MUSCAT! HIS FLEET—SOUNDINGS IN THE GULPH— 
BUSIIIRE—VISIT OF THE SHEIK—LANDING IN PERSIA. 
On the 6th of September 1808, when His Majesty’s Mission to the 
court of Teheran was still at Bombay , the Envoy extraordinary, Sir Har¬ 
ford Jones, received dispatches from the Governor-general at Calcutta , 
which determined him to proceed immediately to Persia. The esta¬ 
blishment of the mission had been changed since our arrival in India; 
Major L. F. Smith, who left England as public Secretary, on landing 
at this settlement proceeded to Bengal; and the duties of Secre¬ 
tary of the Legation were annexed to those, which, as private secre¬ 
tary to the Envoy, I had originally discharged. The suite was aug¬ 
mented at Bombay by Mr. Thomas Henry Sheridan, and Captain 
James Sutherland, severally of the civil and military establishments 
of that presidency, by Cornet Henry Willock, of the Madras ca¬ 
valry, commander of the body guard; and was subsequently joined by 
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