BOMBAY TO BUSHIRE. 
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composed of mat houses, and the greater part of the inhabitants (the 
number of the whole is very small) are weavers, who manufacture coarse 
linen and carpets of ordinary colours. From Crotchey to Cape Monze 
the people call themselves Balouches; and from Monze to Cape Jasques, 
they take the name of Brodies : there is some difference in their language, 
perhaps in their religion also, but none in their dress or manners. The 
high lands about Cape Guadel are all extremely remarkable, rising in 
spires and turrets so correctly formed, as to give to many parts of the 
coast, an appearance of towns with their churches and castles. 
Their rocky summits, split and rent, 
Form’d turret, dome, and battlement, 
Or seem’d fantastically set 
With cupola or minaret, 
Wild crests as pagod ever deck’d 
Or mosque of eastern architect. 
Lady of the Lake , Canto I. xi. p. 14. 
One piece of land in particular, forming an entrance to the bay behind 
Cape Guadel , has the most striking resemblance to a long range of 
gothic ruin. We perceived three camels grazing on the heights of the 
cape, and some few signs of cultivation, which we had discovered on no 
other spot along the coast before. 
On the 3d. we saw the town of Chubar ; and plainly distinguished 
among other objects a walled building, which we at first took to be a 
fort, but which according to the Directory, is a place of burial. We 
saw several boats with lateen sails, of a canvas very conspicuously 
white, cut exactly like the sails of the boats on the coast of Italy and 
Sicily. The thermometer was 84°. The 5th. was very sultry, and the 
European possessors, for Herbert in passing it, observes, “ beware by Sir Robert 
“ Siierrye’s example of Cape Guader * * * an infamous port and inhabited by a perfidious 
“people. Under pretext of amity they allured Sherlye and his lady ashoave, A. 1613; 
“ where but for a Hodgee that understood their drift and honestly revealed it, they had been 
“ murdered with Newport their captaine; and merely to play the theeves with them,” 
Herbert’s Travels, p. 113. Ed. 1638. 
