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and, clinging to the mast-top, enjoy with de- 

 rision the spectacle of feeding Kafirs. The 

 Arabs jostled strangers in the streets, drove 

 them from the centre, and compelled them to 

 pass by the wall. At night no one dared to 

 carry a lantern, which would inevitably have 

 been knocked out of his hand ; and a promenade 

 in the dark usually caused insults, sometimes a 

 bastinado. To such a pitch rose contempt for 

 the ' Earanj,' that even the c mild Hindus,' — our 

 6 fellow-subjects ' from Cutch and other parts 

 of Western India, — could not preserve with a 

 European the semblance of civility. 



Time was required to uproot an evil made 

 inveterate, as in Japan, by mercantile tameness, 

 and by the precept quocunque modo rem. Pa- 

 tience, the Sayyid's increasing good-will, and at 

 times a rough measure which brought the negro 

 man to a 6 sense of his duty,' were at last success- 

 ful, and the result now is that the Englishman 

 is better received here than at any of our Presi- 

 dencies. The change is wholly the work of 

 Lieut.-Colonel Hamerton, who, in the strenuous 

 and unremitting discharge of his duties, has lost 

 youth, strength, and health. The iron constitu- 

 tion of this valuable public servant — I have 

 quoted merely one specimen of his worth — has 



