a company of merchants or travellers, who join together in order to go with more security through the dominions of the Great Mogul, and through other countries on the continent of the East Indies.

The cassila differs from a caravan, at least in Persia; for the cassila belongs properly to some sovereign, or to some powerful company in Europe; whereas a caravan is a company of particular merchants, each trading upon his own account. The English and Dutch have each of them their cassila at Gambrow. There are also such cassilas, which cross some parts of the deserts of Africa, particularly that called the sea of land, which lies between the kingdom of Morocco and those of Tombut and Gaigo. This is a journey of 400 leagues; and takes up two months in going, and as many in coming back; the cassila travelling only by night, on account of the excessive heat of that country. The chief merchandise they bring back consists in gold dust, which they call atibar, and the Europeans liber.

on the coast of Guzerat or Cambaya, signifies a small fleet of merchant ships.

CAFFARIA, the country of the Caffres or Hottentots, in the most southerly parts of Africa, lying in the form of a cresent about the inland country of Monomotapa between 35° south latitude and the tropic of Capricorn: and bounded on the east, south, and west, by the Indian and Atlantic oceans. See HOTTENTOTS.

Most of the sea coasts of this country are subject to the Dutch, who have built a fort near the most southern promontory called the Cape of Good Hope.