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articles of their trade, they have nothing to develop 
their faculties, so they become the inert and stolid- 
looking beings they are. 
Among the other Asiatics the Belooch deserve to 
be mentioned. These men are mercenaries from 
Muscat and Mekran. They come to the coast of 
Africa principally as Askar (soldiers), and they com- 
pose the chief portion of the Sultan's army. They 
receive a pay of three dollars per mensem. Some 
receive a little more, some a little less. Out of this 
pay they purchase their own clothes and arms. How 
they manage to live is a mystery. Yet they soon 
become slave-owners, and appear to be in easy cir- 
cumstances. As soldiers they are an exceedingly 
motley and ragamuffin set. Loud and voluble 
talkers, they make themselves heard on every hand, 
but they are little thought of. To their betters they 
pretend the greatest respect, deal out their flatteries 
wholesale, and proffer their service to the death. To 
those they consider their inferiors they are arrogant, 
overriding, pitiless, and brutal. They are lazy, igno- 
rant, conceited, sycophantic, cowardly, treacherous, 
rotten to the core. 
To the population of Zanzibar the Comoro islands 
supply some two thousand men. These are to a 
large extent loafers. No one has much good to say 
of them. Musa, notorious as the dqserter of Living- 
stone, is a member of this class. They come to Zan- 
zibar in search of bread. After awhile, managing to 
purchase a few slaves, they consider their fortunes 
made, and give themselves up to idleness, living upon 
the sweat and toil of their slaves. The Malagash 
have a quarter in the city to themselves. 
