Rough diary of a journey from Scutari to Baghdad performed on horseback in 1814, Uxbridge, 1893
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- Swanston left England in May 1814 to return to India. He carried despatches for the Governor-General of India reporting the defeat of Napoleon and the signing of the Treaty of Paris. Swanston accompanied Henry Ellis, the British envoy to the Shah of Persia, to Constantinople. He left Scutari on 3 July 1814 and, accompanied by four Tartars and two guides, he rode for 48 days through Asia Minor and the upper desert to Mosul and Baghdad. From there he sailed to Basra and Bombay, which he reached on 10 October 1814. (printed, 16pp)
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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