THE CEYLON MUHAMMADANS. 
CHAPTER XLVIII. 
THE MOORMEN OF CEYLON AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS— 
THE POPULATION OF THE WORLD—THE KORAN AND SOME 
EXTRACTS FROM IT — RELIGIOUS TOLERATION AND PERSECU- 
TION— HASSAN TAMBI — MILE-POSTS, AND AN ACCIDENT 
THROUGH THE AGE OF ONE — A SIGN IN THE HEAVENS, 
AND -VYHAT IT BETOKENED — A MIRACULOUS SPRING — 
HASSAn’S MEDITATIONS ON THE SUBJECTS OF HOUSE EREC- 
TION AND WIVES — HIS INTERVIEW WITH MASTER” 
— THE FAULT OF SPEAKING TOO MUCH— A FREQUENT CAUSE 
OF DISCONTENT — AN INTERCHANGE OF ‘‘ LUCKPENNY” — 
HASSAn’s MODE OF CARRYING ON BUSINESS— MAJOR @S- 
EORN ON IbLAMISM— THE ‘‘ DOSEH” AT CAIRO — OUTWARD 
FORMS OF RELIGION — WHERE HASSAN TAMBI PUT HIS 
LUCKPENNY— CONCLUSION AND CONCLUDING REMARKS- 
Muliammadans, or, as they are more generally desig- 
nated in Ceylon, Moormen, in Ferguson’s Directory 
for 1871-72 are numerically estimated at 134,000, and 
are a distinct race of people altogether from either the 
Sinhalese or Tamils, although sections of them may be 
found partially mixed up with both, more especially 
with the latter. But we cannot undertake to lay 
before the readers the original history of this class 
of people, or how they first established themselves, 
in the country. The general features of the race are 
more akin to those of the Tamils, than Sinhalese, in 
every respect, only they are of much stronger make, 
in every way much more muscular, and most persever- 
ing in the acquisition of money, which, as a rule, seems 
to be their chief aim and object in life. In this 
respect, as the Jews are in Europe, so are the Moor- 
men in Ceylon, keen, cunning, and eager in accumu- 
lating money, Yvhich, when once obtained, is as per- 
severingly retained, whatever their wealth may be, 
pretending poverty, just as hard and intent upon 
making an extra penny upon what has already yielded 
them many hundred per cent of profit, as if the 
whole profit of the day’s transaction w^as only to 
consist of that penny. 
The present population of the world has been roughly 
estimated thus : — 
Christians of all denominations, actual 
and nominal 
Jews 
Muhammadans 
Heathens or Pagans ... 
Asiatic Buddhists 
335.000. 000 
5,000,000 
160.000. 000 
200,000,000 
600,000,000 
1,300,000,000 
* The regular census of 1871 gave 30,000 nearly above 
our estimate, the exact number being 163,516 . — Ed.C.Oo 
