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created for us that direct interest in the Persian Gulf which some Continental diplomats at this very time are compelled to take into serious account in prosecution of their plans of commercial and political development in the East. All credit, therefore, to the gallant Blyth and his excellent colleague Weddell, who in the true spirit of patriotic enterprise went into this difficult venture on their own initiative, and who, by their energy and skill, carried it to a successful conclusion at a loss of no more than twenty English lives.
