[The Pirates of Malabar, and An Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago by John Biddulph]@TWC D-Link bookThe Pirates of Malabar, and An Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago CHAPTER IX 4/15
Mahim, Riva, and Darvi were all raided, but with small benefit to the assailants. On the 28th August, at night, a Portuguese force landed and destroyed the fort at Warlee, assisted by the treachery of a renegade Portuguese.
On the 3rd and 4th September, two attempts to land at the Breach were repulsed, and the Council were cheered by the arrival of the _Salisbury_ and _Exeter_ from their Red Sea cruise. Cockburn, of the _Salisbury_, less churlish than Matthews, at once put two pinnaces and seventy-six men at the Council's disposal.
A small expedition of eleven gallivats under Stanton was also fitted out, and a battery erected by the Portuguese at Surey to hinder provisions coming into Bombay, was captured.
One man of the _Exeter_ was killed and another wounded.
Just then came news that Angria was fitting out an expedition of five thousand men to attack Carwar, and the _Exeter_ sailed there to defend the factory. At the beginning of November, the tide turned.
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