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by the night, so welcome to the wild beasts with 

 which they abound, it is like enjoying a dream of 

 the Arabian Nights to wander slowly through the 

 crowded bazaars and the palm -groves of Bombay. 

 In the open carriage which swiftly passes, we get 

 a glimpse of the pale face of some English lady, 

 languidly reclining beside her husband, the Secretary 

 to Government, too tired with his day's labour to do 

 more than passively enjoy the coolness of the night. 

 The buggy which tears along behind has in it a couple 

 of intoxicated English sailors, who make the Iniggy- 

 imllali goad on his wretched horse, by punching and 

 kicking him, he consoling himself with thinking of 

 Jack's drunken generosity. In the neighbourhood of 

 the bwiders, all varieties of the African homo are to 

 be seen ; the lithe Somal, with nothing but a blanket 

 round him ; the stout, short, brown Abyssinian ; and 

 the huge coal-black Seedy, newly arrived from the 

 Mozambique coast, with his incomprehensible alterna- 

 tions of savage sulkiness and maniacal good-humour. 

 Short but brawny Mahratta coolies, from the Concan- 

 Ghaut-Mahta, trudge sturdily along with palanquins, 

 or bearing great loads upon their heads. They always 

 prefer to carry loads in that way ; and when a ben- 

 evolent gentleman gave wheelbarrows to a number 

 of them, the coolies whipt up the barrows upon their 

 heads, whenever he was out of sight, and went off 

 gratified and triumphant. Hindus, old and young, 

 Bunyas and Brahmins, with red turbans and white, 



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