[فاعل خير]

الصفحه ٤٣ من النسخه الالكترونيه

H.M.S. ' Fox,' Captain Hon. A. Cochrane, and eight of the
Company's cruisers. The ' Fox' took the Persian Ambassador
up the Gulf, and proceeded to Al-Koweit, or Grane* .....


*Al Koweit — for the English name Grane is a corruption, and is utterly unknown to the Arabs of the Grulf, says Captain Constable in his " Persian Gulf Pilot " — is, perhaps, the best port in the Gulf, and contains a population of some twenty-five thousand souls of the Uttobee tribe, while it numbers one hundred and thirty tradhig vessels, between thirty and three hundred tons.