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and another of the tired cattle give up 

 in mid-stream and turn over on its side, 

 the poor head will droop below the sur- 

 face, and the distended carcase will float 

 down to the sea. All this because the 

 Parsee merchants from Bombay, having 

 set up their cotton screws and built 

 their warehouses at Coompta, which is 

 an open roadstead, refused to move to 

 Tuddri, where sites were offered them 

 on the shore of a well-protected anchor- 

 age. The break of bulk at the ferry, 

 with its wear and tear, the additional 

 stage of carriage to Coompta, the yearly 

 loss of cattle to the Lumbadies, the 

 risks of the open roadstead to the coun- 

 try craft, — all these counted for nothing 

 in comparison with the cost and trouble 

 of moving a few miles up the coast. 



