There he remained till the end of October.

There were no pirates in the Bay of Bengal, but the sugar trade was very lucrative, and he wanted to invest in it.
He was not long in Calcutta without coming to loggerheads with the Council concerning Mrs.Gyfford, who, as Mrs.Chown, has already been mentioned in these pages,[6] and whose third husband had perished in the Anjengo massacre eighteen months before.

In flying from Anjengo she had carried off the factory books, together with all the money she could lay her hands on.

As the Company had large claims on Gyfford's estate, the Council was bent on making her disgorge.

Matthews espoused her quarrel, as he did that of all who were in the Company's bad books, and, in defiance of the Council, carried her off to Bombay, and eventually to England.
[1] 'Thrust his cane in his mouth.'-- _Downing_.
[2] Malwan was a small fortified harbour belonging to Kolapore, about sixty miles north of Goa.