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are angry men, uncommonly liandy with their 

 well-pohshed daggers, and they think as little of 

 cutting a negro's as a sheep's throat. At the 

 promise of an extra dollar they walk off under 

 heavy loads, besides carrying their arms and 

 necessaries. These two, in fact, are good men 

 and true. 



The gem of the party, however, is one Sidi 

 Mubarak, who has taken to himself the agnomen 

 of ' Bombay.' His sooty skin, and teeth sharp- 

 pointed like those of the reptilia, denote his origin 

 from Uhiao : he is one of those model Seedies, run- 

 away slaves, employed as lascars and coal-trim- 

 mers, w^ho with chaff, grimace, and peals of 

 laughter, varied now and then by dance and song, 

 delight the passengers in an Anglo- Indian 

 steamer. Bombay, sold at Kilwa in early youth, 

 a process of which he talks with many broad 

 grins, was carried to Cutch by some Banyan, and 

 there became a libertinus : he looks fondly back 

 upon the hour of his adoption, and he sighs for 

 the day when a few dollars will enable him to 

 return. His head is a triumph to phrenology ; a 

 high narrow cranium, denoting by arched and 

 rounded crown, f uyant brow and broad base with 

 full development of the moral region, deficiency 

 of the reflectives, fine perceptives, and abundant 



