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39. Another market-place of the same tribe. The Bekyl and Háshed Arabs
of this district serve in the army of the Imám of Sana; many of them go
to India, and are preferred by the native princes there to any other
class of soldiers: Tipoo Saheb had several hundred of them in his
service. They generally embark at Shaher, in Hadramaut; and their chief
destination at present is Guzerat and Cutch.