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Mocha, is about two hundred and fifty ; there are also about thirty 
at Beit-el-Fakih, and fifty at Zebeid. Most of them come from 
Jeygat, a piratical state at the entrance of the Gulf of Cutch; they 
come young, and stay till they have made a sufficient property to 
live comfortably at home. They never bring their wives with 
them, from a dread of their being insulted by the Arabs, Nothing, 
but the great profits attending their trade, could induce a person of 
any property to live so wretched a life ; yet Devage, the Company's 
broker, is considered as sufficiently rich to command three or four 
lacs of dollars at a moment's notice. The Arabs are perfectly 
aware of their riches, and frequently extort money from them, par- 
ticularly when about to return to India. Devage's brother, who was, 
before his departure, the head of the house, escaped on board an 
English vessel, without having undergone the last squeeze which 
the Dola intended to give him. Devage, to avoid punishment, 
was obliged to prove, that he had been carried on board against 
his will. The Gentoos live according to their own laws, and show 
a great obedience to the chief Banian, who acts for them in all 
public concerns. In private life they are inoffensive and timid ; and 
even their religious prejudice, which prevents their destroying 
any thing that has life in it, is amiable. As traders, however, it is 
impossible to speak well of them, for no tie of honesty binds them. 
One merchant boasted to Mr. Pringle that, in a sale of silk, he had 
made ten fiassels turn out twelve and a half This, however, was 
after that gentleman had detected their frauds, and had procured 
proper weights for the use of the factory. 
A very large kind of^dow, which is called a Trankey, is employed 
in the trade between India and Mocha. These vessels have the 
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