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Commodoreship--A noseless
company--Angria recommences attacks--Abortive expedition against
Gheriah--Downing's account of it--Preparations to attack Kennery ...
CHAPTER V
THE COMPANY'S SERVANTS
The Company's civil servants--Their comparison with English who
went to America--Their miserable salaries--The Company's military
servants--Regarded with distrust--Shaxton's mutiny--Captain
Keigwin--Broken pledges and ill-treatment--Directors' vacillating
policy--Military grievances--Keigwin seizes the administration of
Bombay--His wise rule--Makes his submission to the Crown--Low
status of Company's military officers--Lord Egmont's speech--Factors
and writers as generals and colonels--Bad quality of the common
soldiers--Their bad treatment--Complaint against Midford--Directors'
parsimony ...
CHAPTER VI
EXPEDITION AGAINST KENNERY
Sivajee's occupation of Kennery--A naval action--Minchin and
Keigwin--Bombay threatened--The Seedee intervenes--Conajee Angria
occupies Kennery--Boone sails with the expedition--Manuel de
Castro--Futile proceedings--Force landed and repulsed--Second
landing--Manuel de Castro's treachery--Gideon Russell--Bad behaviour
of two captains--Defeat--Attack abandoned--The St. George--The
Phram--Manuel de Castro punished--Bombay wall completed--Angria
makes overtures for peace--Boone outwitted ...

CHAPTER VII
EXPEDITION AGAINST GHERIAH
Trouble with the Portuguese--Madagascar pirates again--Loss of the
Cassandra--Captain Macrae's brave defence--The one-legged
pirate--Richard Lazenby--Expedition against Gheriah--Mr. Walter
Brown--His incompetency--Gordon's landing--Insubordination and
drunkenness--Arrival of the Phram--General attack--Failure--The
Kempsant's alliance--Attack on Deoghur--The Madagascar pirates,
England and Taylor--Ignominious flight--Fate of the Phram--Brown
despatched south again--The pirates at Cochin--They take flight to
Madagascar--Their rage against Macrae and England--England
marooned--Taylor takes Goa ship--Rich prize--Governor Macrae ...
CHAPTER VIII
EXPEDITION AGAINST COLABA
Measures taken in England against pirates--Woodes Rogers at the
Bahamas--Edward Teach--Challoner Ogle--Bartholomew Roberts
killed--Matthews sent to the East Indies--Naval officers'
duels--Portuguese alliance--Expedition against
Colaba--Assault--Defeat--A split in the alliance--Plot against
Boone--His departure--Matthews' schemes--His insulting
behaviour--He quarrels with everybody--Goes to Madagascar--The
King of Ranter Bay--Matthews goes to Bengal ...
CHAPTER IX
A TROUBLED YEAR IN BOMBAY
Loss of the Hunter galley--Quarrel with Portuguese--Alliance of
Portuguese with Angria--War with both--A double
triumph--Portuguese make peace--Angria cowed--Matthews
reappears--Trouble caused by him--He returns to
England--Court-martialled--The last of Matthews ...

CHAPTER X
TWENTY-SIX YEARS OF CONFLICT
The case of Mr. Curgenven--Death of Conajee Angria--Quarrels of his
sons--Portuguese intervention--Sumbhajee Angria--Political
changes--Disaster to Bombay and Bengal galleys--The Ockham beats
off Angria's fleet--The Coolees--Loss of the Derby--Mahrattas expel
Portuguese from Salsette--Captain Inchbird--Mannajee Angria gives
trouble--Dutch squadron repulsed from Gheriah--Gallant action of the
Harrington--Sumbhajee attacks Colaba--English assist Mannajee--Loss
of the Antelope--Death of Sumbhajee Angria--Toolajee
Angria--Capture of the Anson--Toolajee takes the Restoration--Power
of Toolajee--Lisle's squadron--Building of the Protector and
Guardian ...
CHAPTER XI
THE DOWNFALL OF ANGRIA
Toolajee fights successful action with the Dutch--He tries to make
peace with Bombay--Alliance formed against him--Commodore
William James--Slackness of the Peishwa's fleet--Severndroog--James's
gallant attack--Fall of Severndroog--Council postpone attack on
Gheriah--Clive arrives from England--Projects of the
Directors--Admiral Watson--Preparations against Gheriah--The
Council's instructions--Council of war about prize-money--Double
dealing of the Peishwa's officers--Watson's hint--Ships engage
Gheriah--Angrian fleet burnt--Fall of Gheriah--Clive occupies the
fort--The prize-money--Dispute between Council and Poonah
Durbar--Extinction of coast piracy--Severndroog tower ...

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AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN INDIA TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO

ILLUSTRATIONS
MAHRATTA GRABS AND GALLIVATS ATTACKING AN
ENGLISH SHIP. MAP OF MALABAR COAST.

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THE PIRATES OF MALABAR
CHAPTER I
RISE OF EUROPEAN PIRACY IN THE EAST
Portuguese pirates--Vincente Sodre--Dutch pirates--Royal
filibustering--Endymion Porter's venture--The Courten
Association--The Indian Red Sea fleet--John Hand--Odium excited
against the English in Surat--The Caesar attacked by French
pirates--Danish depredations--West Indian pirates--Ovington's
narrative--Interlopers and permission ships--Embargo placed on
English trade--Rovers trapped at Mungrole--John Steel--Every seizes
the Charles the Second and turns pirate--His letter to English
commanders--The Madagascar settlements--Libertatia--Fate of
Sawbridge--Capture of the Gunj Suwaie--Immense booty--Danger of
the English at Surat--Bombay threatened--Friendly behaviour of the
Surat Governor--Embargo on European trade--Every sails for
America--His reputed end--Great increase of piracy--Mutiny of the
Mocha and Josiah crews--Culliford in the Resolution--The London
seized by Imaum of Muscat.
From the first days of European enterprise in the East, the coasts of
India were regarded as a favourable field for filibusters, the earliest we
hear of being Vincente Sodre, a companion of Vasco da Gama in his
second voyage. Intercourse with heathens and idolaters was regulated
according to a different code of ethics from that applied to intercourse
with Christians. The authority of the Old Testament upheld slavery, and

Africans were regarded more as cattle than human beings; while
Asiatics were classed higher, but still as immeasurably inferior to
Europeans. To prey upon Mahommedan ships was simply to pursue in
other waters the chronic warfare carried on against Moors and Turks in
the Mediterranean. The same feelings that led the Spaniards to adopt
the standard of the Cross in their conquest of Mexico and Peru were
present, though less openly avowed, in the minds of the merchants and
adventurers of all classes and nationalities who flocked into the Indian
seas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With the decadence of
buccaneering and the growth of Indian trade, there was a corresponding
increase of piracy, and European traders ceased to enjoy immunity.
In 1623 the depredations of the Dutch brought the English into disgrace.
Their warehouses at Surat were seized, and the president and factors