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Bay of Condatchy, 
tached to tlie party to make signals to tile boats, and to give 
notice of their going out or return. 
Arippo is the only place hereabouts where good water can be 
procured. This necessary of life, at tliat part of the coast, is 
not only bad but very scarce, and often procured with great 
difficulty. Where any good spi’ings are found, the Europeans 
take care to have themselves first supplied ; the natives often 
find it difficult to obtain the smallest quantity. 
There is here a chapel for those of the Roman catholic 
persuasion, who consist cliiefly of the Parawas and Malabars, 
resorting hither during the season of the pearl fishery. They 
attend the chapel on Sundays and holidays in great numbers ; 
and it is their constant practice devoutly to offer up their vows 
and offerings before they commence diving for the oysters. 
In the neighbourhood of Arippo the woods are very full of 
deer and wild hogs. Great abundance of these animals are 
brought by the Cinglese peasants to the officers stationed here 
during the season of the fishery. 
Six miles further on, and at about twelve miles horn Ma- 
naar, lies the bay of Condatchy, where all the boats are col- 
lected for the pearl fishery. The bay forms nearly a half-moon ; 
the beach which surrounds it is an extensive sandy waste, with 
only a few miserable huts scattered along the shore between 
the bay and the woods which skirt the beach. Such is the 
appearance which the bay of Condatchy presents at most sea- 
sons of the year; but during the fishery the picture is entirely 
reversed. At that time the bay is crowded with small vessels, 
and the beach presents an astonishing multitude of people from 
every quarter of India. The difference of their appearancej. 
