Hannay, David, 1853-1934 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 166
xample of a morality like his own, applied by a strongerpower than his. They ruined the trade of the Rumis fromthe Red Sea to Malabar, and wherever they went theydisturbed and they degraded. If they did not drive allships save their own off the Eastern Seas, the reasons were,first, that they were… … IN THE EASTERN SEAS 139 proved. The native merchants of Western India, and ofSurat in particular, who built ships of teak, adopted Europeanmodels. Their own people supplied them with Lascarsailors and Seedy Boys, the men who served the MogulAdmiral, the Sidi, or Cid (the Lord). And this…
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