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hours. The garrison is securely locked up, and 

 in case of most urgent need no aid is procurable 

 before morning. 



I may now offer a catalogue raisonne of the 

 late Sayyid's fleet, which was intended to keep 

 up the maritime prestige of his predecessors, the 

 Yu'rabi Imams. The Shah Alam, a double- 

 banked frigate of 1100 tons, carrying 50 guns 

 (45, says M. Guillain, i. 584), was built at Maza- 

 gon in 1820, and now acts guardship, moored off 

 Mto-ni. The ' Caroline ' (40 guns), the best of the 

 squadron, and built at Bombay, was degraded to 

 be a merchantman, in which category she visited 

 Marseille (1849) : she has, however, again 

 opened her ports after returning from Maskat. 

 The strong and handsome 6 Sultana ' was 

 wrecked near Wasin when returning from 

 India. The c Salihi ' was lost in the Persian 

 Gulf ; the 6 Sulayman Shah ' and the £ Humayun 

 Shah,' in the Gulf of Bengal. The ' Piedmont ese,' 

 36 guns, built at Cochin in 1836, might be re- 

 paired at an expense of £10,000. The £ Victoria ' 

 frigate (40), teak-built in the Mazagon dock- 

 yard, is still sea-worthy. The 6 Bahmani ' cor- 

 vette (24 guns), is a fast-sailing craft with great 

 breadth of beam, hailing from Cochin : she was 

 lately fitted out for a recruiting vessel to Ilazra- 



