Photo 68

Four loose prints showing the inscription on the memorial at the Consulate-General at Basra to those members of the Euphrates Expedition who lost their lives in the hurricane of 21 May 1836. An accompanying typescript records the text of the memorial as follows:

'This Fountain commemorates the awful event which visited the Euphrates Expedition, 21st May 1836, near Is Jaria about 85 miles above Ana. The Expedition was descending the River with full prosperity, when it was visited suddenly by a Hurricane of tremendous violence. Both vessels were placed in imminent danger, from which the Euphrates escaped but the Tigris foundered and with her werew lost the chief part of the souls on board. The names of those whoe were swallowed up in the sudden vortex are [here follows list of names]. The names of those who by God's mercy were miraculously saved are [here follows list of names]. Sir Robert Grant and the members of the Council at Bombay in admiration of the labors and exertions with which the Expedition had surmounted its many and great difficulties up to the above moment and sympathising in the unhappy fate of the brave men who died have raised this monument to their memory.'