They plied their chambers and small shot, and slung stones, flourishing their targets and darting long lances.

They were well manned in a boat ten times as big as our barge, and at least sixty fighting men besides rowers.

We had none to manage our small gun," the gunner having deserted at Goa.
However, the pirates were beaten off, and Fryer and his companions were mightily praised by the Dutch.

These pirates hailed probably from Vingorla, where the Sawunt Waree chief, known in those days as the 'Kempsant,'[2] carried on a brisk piratical trade.

The name was a corruption of Khem Sawunt, a common name of the Vingorla chiefs; the Portuguese changed it into Quemar Santo, 'the saint burner,' on account of his sacrilegious treatment of their churches.
There were no more determined pirates than the Arabs of Muscat and the Sanganians of Beyt and Dwarka, who, between them, intercepted the trade of the Persian Gulf, while the Coolee rovers of Guzarat took their toll of the plunder.