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 6 ARAB CONQUEST OF SIND Isle of Rubies (Ceylon, so called from the beauty of its women), sent as a present to Hajjaj certain Moham- medan girls who had been born in his country, the A TYPE OF CEYLON BEAUTY. orphan daughters of merchants who had died there. The king hoped by this measure to ingratiate himself with Hajjaj; but the ship in which he had embarked these girls was attacked and taken by some barks