To Guard Against This, The
Khan Has Now Sent Over Many Coats And Jackets Of Leather, As Not So
Liable To Catch Fire As Their Calico Coats, Quilted Or Stuffed With
Cotton Wool.
Yet, according to the English proverb, The burnt child
dreads the fire; notwithstanding their leathern coats, none of them
Are
hardy enough to attempt this new breach, though much easier to enter
than the former, any farther than to pillage certain bales of bastas
and other stuffs which have fallen down from a barricade or breast-work,
thrown up by the Portuguese for defending the top of the breach from the
fire of the Persians.
On the 5th of April the Persian general had news that 100,000 maunds of
powder were arrived from Bahrein. On the 12th, a Portuguese came to the
Persian general, having escaped from the castle, and gave accounts of
the great wants and weaknesses of the garrison, insomuch, that six or
eight died daily of the flux, chiefly owing to their having nothing to
drink, but corrupted brackish water, of which even they have so little
as to be put on short allowance, so that several have died of thirst.
Their only food consists of rice and salt fish, both of which would
require a good allowance of drink. Notwithstanding all this, the Persian
general wastes his time in constructing new mines, of which he has no
less than three in hand at this time, as if he proposed to blow up the
wall all round about, before making any fresh assault.
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