text:  The choice of a ship and the selection of sea-stock were of course matters of grave consideration and the more so from the peculiar unfitness of the habits and religious scruples of an Indian Moslem for the privations unavoidable at sea; but a passage was at last taken for the khan and his two servants on board the Edinburgh of 1400 tons and it being agreed that he should find his own provisions to obviate all mistakes on the score of forbidden food and the captain promising moreover that his comforts should be carefully attended to this weighty negotiation was at length concluded