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 etc.) for which they had been paid in advance, built a ship secretly, embarked their families, and emigrated down the Ganges and out to an island over-sea. The Vālahassa-Jātaka (Jāt. ii. 128, no. 196) mentions five hundred dealers who were fellow passengers on an ill-fated ship. The Supparaka-Jātaka (Jāt. iv. 138-142) records the perilous adventures on the sea undergone by a company of seven hundred merchants who sailed from the seaport town of Bharukaccha in a vessel under the pilotage of a blind but accomplished mariner. The Mahājanaka-Jātaka (Jāt. vi. 32-35, no. 539)