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with an ambassador sent by Sevajee from Rairee, and, fearing-
he should think that this success of the Seedee was acceptable
to them, they immediately recalled their own fleet. The Seedee,
against whom they were much incensed at his having so
treacherously occupied Henery, tried again to break off the
treaty then being negotiated with Sevajee, by sending the grabs
he had taken to be sold in Bombay, and. on being refused the
permission, he entered the harbour on the 27th of February
with his whole fleet, and detached his galivats, crowded with
men, into the River Penn, which they went up as far as the
depth permitted, burning all the towns and villages on either
hand. Nevertheless the treaty was concluded in the middle of
March ; it confirmed that of 1674, made by Mr. Oxenden, and
promised, on the part of Sevajee, immediate payment of what
remained due of the compensation then allowed for the
Company's losses at the sack of Rajahpore in 1673. The
English, on their part, agreed to permit the Seedee's fleet to
winter in the harbour, only on the condition of abstaining from
any attack on the opposite shore. But Seedee Cossim made
little account of treaties, and, on the 5th of May, came into the
harbour with the main body of his fleet, and anchored off" the
fort without permission or firing the customary salute. Upon
this guns were fired on his ships, which forced them to a further
distance and produced a discussion, which, at length, terminated
by the Seedee's consenting to refrain from the invasion of the
" Corlahs," conformably to the engagements lately made by the
Council with Sevajee ; but their continuing in the harbour
gave great umbrage to Sambhajee, the son and successor of the
latter, who despatched troops to the shore, with the object of
burning their fleet, though he continually deferred the attempt.
On the 1st of August, the night being dark, two hundred Mah-
rattas landed on the Island of Henery, and got within the works
before they were discovered ; but the Seedee's men attacked them
with resolution and either took or killed the greater part. Eighty
heads were brought in baskets to Mazagon, where Seedee Cossim
prepared to fix them along the shore on poles, but was inter-
dicted by the Council. This ill-success increased the resentment
of Sambhajee, who sent more troops to the Corlahs, and
threatened the invasion of Bombay, upon which the Council
reinforced the outposts towards Gallian. At length the Seedee
put to sea on the 2nd of December, and, after again returning tt)
Bombay in April, 1681, proceeded to Surat on the ord of ]\Iay.*
Notwithstanding the treaties and agreements made with the
Moguls and Mahrattas, the hostile attitude assumed by these
two parties in retaining possession of the Islands of Henery and
Kenery, and the ill-jndged orders for the reduction of the guard
at Surat and the Military and Marine establishments at Bombay,
* Orme's " Orieulal Fragments," pp. 7'J to i)7.