crees. The duties which he enjoyed were prayer five times a day, fasting, charity, and pilgrimage to Mecca. Their religion forbids the use of images, though anciently they were idolaters, and the same rites which are now practiced by Mahometans⚫, were invented and practiced by idolators. From Japan to Peru, all round the globe, sacrifices have prevailed; the votary⚫ has expressed his or his fear, by destroying, or consuming, to honor of the gods, the most precious of their gifts. The life of man is the most precious oblation to depreciate any calamity! therefore the altars of Phoenicia and Egypt, of Rome and Carthage, have been polluted with human gore. The Arabs, like the Jews, obtain from swine’s flesh, and circumcise their children.

The Banians are a sect tolerated here. They profess to love everything which breathes, to assist everything which is in pain, to abhor the spilling of blood, and to abstain from food that has enjoyed life. The Europeans trust them to do all their business with the Arabs, and they were always found honest. The Wohabees⚫, a new sect, who are military conquerors, have risen here, changing their religion and forbidding pilgrimages to Mecca, so that the mighty fabric Mohametanism is rapidly passing away.

About twelve million five hundred in fifty thousand pounds of coffee are annually exported. The Europeans take 1,500,000: the Persians 3,500,000; the fleet from Suez takes 3,500,00: Hindustan, the