REMARKS ON THE HAWKERS. 73

any article that is vended at the bazaars, but is
also hawked about the streets. This is a mea-
sure of necessity growing out of the state of
Mussulmaun society, by which the females are
enabled to purchase at their own doors all that
can be absolutely requisite for domestic pur-
poses, without the obligation of sending to the
markets or the shops, when either not conve-
nient, or not agreeable. And the better to aid
both purchasers and venders, these hawkers
pronounce their several articles for sale, with
voices that cannot fail to impress the inhabitants
enclosed within high walls, with a full know-
ledge of the articles proclaimed without need
of interpreters.