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slaves and soldiers of fortune. From these and from the Sīdī population of Bombay City, the P. and O. steamers and the coasting vessels recruit a portion of their crews. The Nawābs of Janjira and Sachīn both trace their descent from the Sīdī admirals of Janjira, the latter belonging to an elder branch which was expelled from Janjira at the close of the eighteenth century. (I.G. Bom., 1909, 488–90; Yule, Hobson-Jobson, ed. Crooke, 1903, s.v. Jungeera.)]