We Also Now Set Ashore
Our Treacherous Balloche Pilot, Sim-Sadin, Though He Better Merited
To Have Been Thrown Into
The sea, as he endeavoured twice to have cast
us away; once by his own means, as formerly alluded to,
And afterwards
by giving devilish council to the pilot we hod from the fisher boat at
this place.
[Footnote 116: The river Indus has many mouths, of which no less than
seventeen are laid down in Arrowsmith's excellent map of Hindoostan,
extending between the latitudes of 24 deg. 45' and 23 deg. 15' both N. and
between the longitudes of 67 deg. 12' and 69 deg. 12' both east. That mouth
where the Expedition now came to anchor, was probably that called the
Pitty river, being the most north-western of the Delta, in lat 24 deg. 45'
N. and long. 67 deg. 12' E. from Greenwich; being the nearest on her way
from Guadal, and that which most directly communicates with Tatta, the
capital of the Delta of the Indus. - E.]
[Footnote 117: Such is the vague mode of expression in the Pilgrims; but
it appears afterwards that he was governor of Diul, at which place Sir
Robert Shirley and his suite were landed. It singularly happens, that
Diul is omitted in all the maps we have been able to consult; but from
the context, it appears to have been near the mouth of the Pitty river,
mentioned in the preceding note. It is afterwards said to have been
fifteen miles up the river, in which case it may possibly be a place
otherwise called Larry Bunder, about twenty miles up the Pitty, which
is the port of Tatta.
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