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after a voyage in an Arab dow, of forty days from Mocha during the 

 favourable monsoon. As the vessel touched at several places along 

 the coast, he had unusual opportunities of viewing the country ; 

 which, he informed me, "looked everywhere alike;" broken, moun- 

 tainous, and devoid of vegetation, as at Aden and Muscat. 



At Zanzibar and at Muscat also, two or three persons from Socotra 

 were pointed out to me ; otherwise, I should not have distinguished 

 them from the surrounding Arabs. Captain Jackson, regarded the 

 inhabitants of the interior of Socotra, as being " much the same sort 

 of people with the Bedouins of Muscat; their Sultan in like manner 

 wearing a fillet around his head. Their hair is long and straight, and 

 not in the least inclining to be woolly." 



On the 29th of October, we sailed for Bombay ; where we arrived 

 on the 11th of November. And where I found in the Sindians of 

 the Lower Indus, a striking resemblance to the Bedouins of Muscat. 

 Indeed, the spot occupied by a body of these Sindians, who had 

 brought horses for sale, was usually termed " the Bedouin camp." 



I frequently met with Arab visiters in the streets of Bombay ; and 

 judging from the costume, they were mostly from Eastern Arabia. 

 And in instances where the original dress had been abandoned, 

 the language often revealed the presence of Arabs of the lower class. 

 In the territory of the Nizam, and more than two hundred miles 

 from Bombay, I found the gate of one of the towns guarded by 

 an Arab soldier. 



d. hidian Muslims. 



I have spoken in another chapter, of the Indian Muslims who were 

 seen at Singapore, and who came chiefly from Eastern Hindoostan. 

 Those met with on my second Voyage, belonged to the North and 

 West; and for the most part, unequivocally to the White race. 



As the pilgrim vessels usually touch at Mocha, numbers of Indian 

 Muslims are to be met with in that city ; where I soon learned to 

 distinguish them by the straightness of the beard ; a point in which 

 they differ from Europeans, and which is expressed in certain Greek 

 and Roman representations of Orientals. Some of these Indian Mus- 

 lims, dealt in precious stones ; while others had become residents. 



