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DEAN MAHOMET.
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of Bengal for ſhip-building, and other uſes.
In January 1783, we arrived at Calcutta, that great emporium of wealth and commerce, where people of rank appear in a ſtyle of grandeur far ſuperior to the faſhionable eclat diſplayed in the brilliant circles of Europe. Every private gentleman is attended by twenty ſervants, at leaſt; eight of whom called bahareas; are alternately employed in carrying his palanquin: and two footmen termed halcarahs, walk before this travelling vehicle: he alſo keeps three or four domeſtic ſervants, namely, a conſumma or butler, a bowberchee or cook, and a kizmutgaur or valet:
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