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in which India is extremely fertile; fome fpeak of the
juice of the Milky hedge. Euphorbia Tiraculli, Syft. PL ii. 43$.
OJJifraga laSlea, Rumpb. Amb. vii. 62, tab. xxix. Comm. hort. i.
27, tab. xiv. This emits moft copioufly a milk of fo cauftic a
nature, as is likely to produce a moft agonizing death. The
juices of other Euphorbia are very deadly, as are thofe of the
root of that beautiful flower the Gloriofa Superba, Syft. PI. ii. 49,
Lilium Zeylan. Comm. hort. i. 69, tab. xxxv. In one place I find
another unintelligibly mentioned, under the title of the milk
of the coco nut buffi *.
I now purfue the event of the complaints laid before the
Prefidency of Bombay, by the feceding officers. Their infor-
mation appeared well founded. Matthews was ordered to be
fuperceded, his misfortune being then unknown. Macleod'was
appointed to fucceed him in the command, and Humberjlon
and Shaw to ferve under Macleod, The fequel is tragical. The
new officers, on April 5, failed in the Ranger floop of ten guns,,
Lieut. Omen commander, to be landed for the purpofe of join-
ing the army. On the 7th they fell in with the Mabratta fleet,
a powerful fquadron, which attacked them without the left
notice. Major Shaw was fhot dead, the General and Col. Hum--
berfion through the lungs, and feveral other officers' killed or
wounded. After a defence, far too obftinate againft fo very
fuperior a force, the furvivors ftruck, and were carried into Gbe—
riah\ the Governor difowning any knowlege of the peace,,
which had actually been proclamed a very few days before. Such ■
* Lieut. Hubbard's Letter.
is*
in which India is extremely fertile; fome fpeak of the
juice of the Milky hedge. Euphorbia Tiraculli, Syft. PL ii. 43$.
OJJifraga laSlea, Rumpb. Amb. vii. 62, tab. xxix. Comm. hort. i.
27, tab. xiv. This emits moft copioufly a milk of fo cauftic a
nature, as is likely to produce a moft agonizing death. The
juices of other Euphorbia are very deadly, as are thofe of the
root of that beautiful flower the Gloriofa Superba, Syft. PI. ii. 49,
Lilium Zeylan. Comm. hort. i. 69, tab. xxxv. In one place I find
another unintelligibly mentioned, under the title of the milk
of the coco nut buffi *.
I now purfue the event of the complaints laid before the
Prefidency of Bombay, by the feceding officers. Their infor-
mation appeared well founded. Matthews was ordered to be
fuperceded, his misfortune being then unknown. Macleod'was
appointed to fucceed him in the command, and Humberjlon
and Shaw to ferve under Macleod, The fequel is tragical. The
new officers, on April 5, failed in the Ranger floop of ten guns,,
Lieut. Omen commander, to be landed for the purpofe of join-
ing the army. On the 7th they fell in with the Mabratta fleet,
a powerful fquadron, which attacked them without the left
notice. Major Shaw was fhot dead, the General and Col. Hum--
berfion through the lungs, and feveral other officers' killed or
wounded. After a defence, far too obftinate againft fo very
fuperior a force, the furvivors ftruck, and were carried into Gbe—
riah\ the Governor difowning any knowlege of the peace,,
which had actually been proclamed a very few days before. Such ■
* Lieut. Hubbard's Letter.
is*