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bund by squeezing bis throat. Banyan corpses 

 are burnt at a place about two miles behind the 

 town, and the procession is accompanied by a 

 guard to keep off naughty boys. When a 

 Bhattia dies without relatives on the Island, a 

 committee of his fellow caste-men meets by the 

 order of H. B. Majesty's Consul; takes cogni- 

 zance of his capital, active and passive; and, 

 after settling his liabilities, remits by bill the 

 surplus to his relatives in India. 



The following is a list of the other Hindu 

 castes to be found at Zanzibar : — 



Brahman, of whom there are now six indi- 

 viduals, two Gujrati, and four Raj garb, both 

 sub-castes of the Sarsat. One of them, Prad- 

 Mn Joshi, is a Shastri — learned in the Yeda. 



Khattri, four in number : of these one is a 

 trader, and the rest are carpenters capable of 

 doing a very little very rough work. 



W&ni (pure Banyan) one. There are also 

 three or four of the Lohana sub-caste from Sind 

 and Cutch. 



Lobar, or blacksmith : of this Shudra sub- 

 caste there are five ; one acts Sutar (carpenter), 

 and a second is a Sonar, or goldsmith — in Cutch 

 the occupations are not separated by 'Dharma.' 



A few Parsees from Bombav visited Zan- 



