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DEAN MAHOMET.
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which, after ſome preſſing ſolicitations, he obtained, and went his way, but not without leaving his worthy acquaintance ſome viſible ſigns and tokens of laſtng remembrance.
Though few the individuals in India, who impoſe on the unwary by the arts of ſwindling and fraud, the jugglers, or ſlight-of—hand men, are numerous, and greatly excel in their tricks and deceptions, any thing of the kind exhibited in Europe.
I have ſeen one of this aſtoniſhing claſs of men, place in the centre of a bazar, a little ſhrub or branch of a tree, with only a few leaves on it, over which he has thrown a cloth,
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