Thus, James Gilliam, a rover, having put into Mungrole, on the Kattiawar coast, was made welcome and much praised for the noble lavishness with which he paid for supplies.

Soon there came an invitation to a banquet, and Gilliam, with some of his officers and crew, twenty in all, were received by the representative of the Nawab of Junaghur with excessive ceremony.

Much polite curiosity was evinced about the noble strangers.

"Why did they always go armed?
Were their muskets loaded?
Would they discharge them to show their host the European method ?" The muskets were discharged, and immediately the banquet was announced.

"Delay to reload the muskets was inexpedient.