We constantly find them throwing up the service and going away, without waiting for permission.

Brabourne went off to Madras, after delivering over the fort to Mr.Simon Cowse, who had long resided there, apparently as a private merchant, and who proved, as times went, a good servant to the Company.

The Company's service in those days was full of intrigue and personal quarrels.

The merchant second in rank at Anjengo, John Kyffin, intrigued against Cowse so successfully, that Cowse was deposed, and Kyffin was made chief of the settlement.

He appears to have been a thoroughly unscrupulous man.