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kind of natural diamonds. During the time I dwelt in Cambay I 

 saw many marvellous things; and in that time the city was in 

 great calamity and scarceness, so that I have seen the men of the 

 country, who were gentiles, take their child; en, their sons and their 

 daughters, and have desired the Portugals to buv them ; and I have 

 seen them sold for eight or ten lorines a-piece, which may be of 

 our money from ten to thirteen shillings sterling." 



Cambay continued a flourishing commercial city long after the 

 above period; the Mogul princes who then reigned encouraged 

 agriculture, manufactures, and trade. It gradually declined dur- 

 ing the convulsions of the empire in the eighteenth century, and 

 the cruel and oppressive govefnment of Mohman Caun, the then 

 reigning nabob, had completed its ruin. He prided himself on 

 being an excellent Persian scholar, but I should suppose he had 

 never read the Tears of Khorassan, one of the most beautiful poems 

 in that language, from which I have extracted a few stanzas appli- 

 cable to the present subject, translated by Captain VI. Kirkpatrick. 



'"' Say, dost thou know what wild confusion reigns 

 " Throughout Cambaia's desolated plains, 



" And how her sons are drown' d in seas of tears ? 

 " Say, dost thou know, of all her ancient boast, 

 " And glorious sights that spread her fame the most, 



" No trace or mournful vestige now appears ? 



" Here upstart slaves, to fame and worth unknown, 

 " Hear their proud crests, and in imperious tone, 



" Command the man whose virtues all revere : 

 " Here avarice scoffs at virtue in distress, 

 " And spurns the hand which grateful thousands bless, — 



" O hard reverse! and fate, too — too severe ! 



