He
Said That, On Hearing Their Murderous Intentions, His Heart Yearned
Within Him, To Think We Should Be Led Like Sheep To The Slaughter By
Such Bloody Butchers, And That God Willed Him To Reveal Their Plot To
Us.
He farther told us, that to his knowledge, they had already betrayed
three ships in the same manner; that
They were all rebels against the
King of Persia, refusing to pay the tribute which they and their
ancestors had been accustomed to; and that the king of Persia had levied
an army, which waited not for from Guadal, with the purpose to invade
the country next winter.
This country of Macquerona, or Mekran, is on the main land of Asia,
bordering upon the kingdom of Persia. The port of Guadal is nearly in
the lat. of 25 deg. N, the variation being 17 deg. 15' [lat. 24 deg. 40' N. long.
61 deg. 50' E.]. It has good anchorage in four or five fathoms. At night of
the 21st September, the day after leaving Guadal, our balloche pilot
brought our ship in danger of running on a shoal, where we had to come
suddenly to anchor till next morning. The 24th at night, while laying
to, because not far from Cape Camelo, a Portuguese frigate, or bark,
passed close beside us, which at first we suspected to have been an
armed galley, for which cause we prepared for defence in case of need.
3. Arrival at Diul-ginde,[115] and landing of the Ambassador:
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