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PHYSICAL HISTORY OF MAN. 



MOGULS. 



I have not found a more convenient name for the modern Persians, 

 than that of Moguls; which I sometimes heard applied to them at 

 Bombay ; but the term, I believe, is also used in reference to rank. 

 Numbers of these Persian emigrants, were settled at Bombay; where 

 they were distinguished, by wearing in place of a turban a high pointed 

 cap, made apparently of black lambskin. They seemed to be a rude, 

 hardy, able-bodied set of men; and they were perhaps all of them, from 

 the Northern section of the country ; for Persians wearing a different 

 costume will be spoken of hereafter. They belonged among Muslims 

 to the sect of Ali. 



I saw none of the above class of people, at Singapore. But in the 

 streets of Cairo, I once met with several strangers who wore a some- 

 what similar dress ; and who had doubtless come either from Persia or 

 from a neighbouring country. 



AFGHANS. 



Afghans, were spoken of as being by no means rare at Bombay ; 

 and I met with two or three individuals wearing the Afghan dress, 

 as this was described to me ; but in the absence of my interpreter, I 

 could not ascertain their place of origin. 



Some " Cabul people" were once pointed out to me at Bombay. 

 These differed from the preceding individuals, in their costume; and 

 they strongly resembled the Sindians and Bedouins of Northwestern 

 India. They wore a hemispherical cap, on the top of the head. 



SIKHS. 



Sikhs were w^ell knovi^n at Singapore; which place they had reached 

 by the route of the Ganges and Calcutta. An individual was pointed 

 out to me ; who was perhaps not a fair example of the nation, and who 

 was obviously of mixed descent; his complexion was as dark as that 

 of the Telinga people, but he presented points of resemblance to the 

 Ethiopian, and even to the Negro race. Notwithstanding that the 

 Panjab, or country of the Sikhs, is situated on the waters of the 

 Indus, I did not meet with any of these people at Bombay. 



