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At Anjengo, the Commissioner dismissed two of the Com-
pany's servants, and, on mustering the garrison, found them
to consist of a captain and ensign, forty-one Europeans, eighty
Topasses and Africans, and a gunner with a small party under
his command, their arms being in bad order, and their twenty
cannon of all sizes, mounted on carriages of various fashions.
Embarking again at Carwar, he steered towards Bombay, and,
near Cabo de Kama, generally st_yled Cape Ramas, seeing three
grabs, supposed to be engaged in piracy, with a ship in tow, he
gave chase, and fired a broadside at them but the pirates
;
managed to escape with their prize. At Goa the Viceroy " was
mighty courteous, and expressed a mighty desire of a good
correspondence with the English ;" but he was not so polite
as to restore the ' Monsoon,"* which he affirmed had bet^n in
the hands of the pirates for thirteen days, and, having
been captured by the Portuguese after so long a detention, must
be regarded as their lawful prize. At Gheria, Mr. Strutt's boats
were suffered to pass without molestation, and he even
exchanged civilities with Angria's brother, Angria himself
having marched against the Seedee. On the 28th of January,
1717, tbe ' Catherine' anchored safel}' in the harbour of Bombay.
We learn from a very curious work, written in 17o7, by a
Lieutenant Downing, who served in several of the Company's
ships-of-war at that time, that, in 1715, when Mr. Charles Boone
assumed the Governorship of Bombay ,t the island was still in a
—
* Tlie foUowiug is from the records of Government: " Tlie Merchants' re-
port of the taking of the ' Monsoon,' on the 12th of February, 1706, by the
Girrca Savajees.
" Tliis day tlie ' Aurenzeb' sailed out of Carwar Harbour to Mangalore, at
which time the Girrea Savajees, with four grabs and thirty-five galivats (Nillu
Purhoo, General of the ileet), lay in Bed Cove. She met the ' Monsoon' oti' An-
jidiva, and told Mr. Wdcox, supercargo, the news. That night thoy kept com-
pany together till they came oH' Collacon. Captain Edwards oilcrcd to see him
oif Cape Eaymas, but he said he did not fear them. About midnight Captain
Edwards parted company. Early in the morning the Savajees came out of tiie
cove and engaged tlie ' Monsoon' for three hours, at which time he surrendered.
They brought him to the Cove. Next day Mr. Mildmay wrote off to Nillu Pur-
boo, and he delivered up all the Europeans. They said they had very little
ammunition on board, having but eighteen shott. Alter the engagement Mr.
Mildmay immediately wrote to the Viceroy this news. The Savajees kept the
' Monsoon' four days in Bed Cove. They went out with a design to carry her to
Gu-rea, but off Goa they had such a strong northerly wind that they could hardly
carry sail., At which time there came out from Algrarda one frigate, one grab,
one Portuguese merchant, and a fighting munchua. The Savajees put afore the
wind, and the Portuguese chased them. Tiu-y ran the siiip ashore in Beil Cove
in the night, and left her, having ])hindered her of four bales of cloth. The
Portuguese fired random shotts all that night. Next morning, seeing nobody on
board, they lightened her and hauled her off. Tiic Savajees would fuin have
persuaded the Rajah's peo])le to fire upon the Portuguese, which they refused.
The Portuguese the same day carried tlie ' Monsoon' to Goa. The Savajees had
her in possession nine days. That is all the Merchants know of this matter.
Carwar, 4th of January, 1714-15."
t In 1715 Bombay—according to the Reverend Richard Cobbe, the chaplain
—had a population of sixteen thousand souls ; and, as regards its government,
Aislabie was the last governor who bore the title of General. Ho left the Presi-