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Carim Caun and destroying that Town and the vessels laying there, we very Agenoj decision to
commit hoatilitiM
highly disapprove, and are astonished you could possibly take suoh a stop m in«t K*rim
ban diupprored.
without our previous sanction, a step so evidently repugnant to our orders, Kbl
your own instructions to M* Skipp, and our Honorable masters repeated com­
mands, for avoiding as much as possible all hostile measures. The orders too
for this measuro wore so very peremptory that in all probability it would have
been carried into execution (from which very bad oonsoquences might have
ensued) had it not been for the prudence of the Caun in not suffering
M«. Skipp to leave his Court, and afterwards to that of the Factors at Bushire
in waiting for further directions from you after the receipt of the Caun’s last
proposals.
10. Wo cannot likewise but remark a striking inconsistency of your pro- Characters of
posing an alliance with Meer Mahanna a man whom in your address to the
Honorable Company under the 29$ June you yourselves represent in a most oomParod-
iufamous light, indeed altho in a subsequent one of the 16$ July you seem to
have entirely changed your opinion respecting him and without any one good
reason assigned you propose the alliance with him here alluded to your
asserting in your letter of the 11$ September, that this man had never
injured us is also a very great mistake, as ho formerly destroyed our Factory at
Bunderick and obliged our Resident to fly the shore, exclusive of which in
your abovementioned address of the 29$ June you yourselves represent him as
the scourge of the Gulph, and say that you impute his civility to the
English to no one motive but the fear of our Cruizers ; neither can we by any
means concur with you in-opinion that the woollens he might take off
annually could be any thing like an equivalent to the Honorable Company
for the loss of that trade to them in the kingdom of Persia, not to.mention
their investments there of Carmenia wool and Raw silk which they would
likewise be deprived of.
11. As to Carim Caun we do not recollect any one instance of his having
ever injured us, nor can we adopt the opinion you seem to have entertained
of his being an unsteady character, for hie strict adherence to his word passed
the Chaub, his resolute refusal of the present carried to him by Skipp until
affairs were settled, us well as other instances of his conduct mentioned in
different parts of your advices make him appear to us in a very different light.

21. We have determined in case of proving successful against Carrack, to
keep possession of it untill our Honorable Masters pleasure can be known
regarding it, for as the Dutch by the best information we can obtain only
rented the island, they can claim no just pretensions to it, or allowing they
even do claim it, their olaim can be of no validity, as we shall become
possessed of it not as a conquest of our own, but by virtue of a grant from
Carim Caun. You are therefore in case of success to keep such a force on the
island as you (after consulting with such officers as you may think proper)
may judge necessary considering all circumstances, and at the same time order
Captain Nilson to survey it very carefully, and deliver in a plan of it to you
to be transmitted to us with the best information you may be able to obtain
of the island itself the anchorage, climate, and every other particular neces*
sary for enabling us to form a proper judgment of the advantages or disadvan­
tages of its situation.
22. From the Oaun’s offering to become security that the Chaub shall not
hereafter molest our trade, we are of opinion after joining our foroes with his