At Kidd's trial it was stated he had ten men wounded in this business.
In April (1698) the _Sedgwick_, arriving at Fort St.David, reported that on its way from Anjengo it had been chased for three days and nights by Kidd, but had been saved by a stiff breeze springing up.

On its return voyage the _Sedgwick_ was less fortunate, being captured off Cape Comorin by Chivers, a Dutchman, in the _Soldado_, otherwise known as the _Algerine_, of two hundred and fifty tons and carrying twenty-eight guns.
The cargo of the _Sedgwick_ not being to Chivers' liking, and being put into good humour with sundry bowls of punch, he let the _Sedgwick_ go, taking out of her only sails and cordage.
The year 1698 saw the Company's trade almost extinguished owing to the depredations of the sea rovers and the hostility aroused against Europeans.
Every letter brought accounts of the pirates and the losses occasioned by them.

In small squadrons they swept the coast from Madras to the mouths of the Indus, and haunted the sea from Cape Comorin to the Straits of Malacca.
In July, the Company's ship _Dorrill_, bound for China, was attacked in the Straits of Malacca by the _Resolution_, late _Mocha_, commanded by Culliford, and, after a hot engagement of three hours, made the pirate sheer off, with heavy losses on both sides.

Bowen in the _Speedy Return_, for the taking of which Green was, with doubtful justice, hanged, Chivers in the _Soldado_, North in the _Pelican_, Halsey, Williams, White, and many others of less fame, were plundering and burning everywhere with impunity.

Early in the year, Kidd captured the _Quedah Merchant_ a country ship bound from Bengal to Surat, belonging to some Armenian merchants who were on board.