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They ain't no more use than so much ballast. Now when we came out here, the lieutenant he says, 'Let's go into Gheriah, and join the pirates there' though according to him they aren't what you may call pirates, being under a king of their own, who has as much right to give them commissions as King George himself.
Another trader was captured on the way, but two others evaded the pirates, by running into the port of Calicut. The trader was a slow sailer, and they were eight days before they approached Gheriah. Early in the morning a heavy cannonade was heard in the distance, causing the greatest excitement among the Mahrattas.
"Are we going to climb up to top of them mountains, your honor?" "No, Tim, fortunately for our horses. We shall skirt their foot, for a hundred and fifty miles, till we get behind Gheriah." "You wouldn't think that a horse could climb them," Tim said. "They look as steep as the side of a house." "In many places they are, Tim, but you see there are breaks in them.
"I have run away from my home, sir. I have deceived and disobeyed my father and, I fear, caused great sorrow to my loving mother. I allowed myself to be tempted to leave them secretly, under cover of a falsehood, and to join a crew of privateers, who turned out to be pirates, the comrades of those whom you destroyed at Gheriah.
However, I knew from the boatswain that Rupert was first for throwing me overboard; and when Muzzy, who had much authority with the crew, would not consent to that, he was for putting me into the castle at Gheriah, along with the late captain.
And further, since we cannot attack the French till war breaks out, I may give you to know that our first business is to root out certain pirates that infest that coast, and who have their headquarters at the citadel of Gheriah, in the Morattoes' country." I turned silent at this, remembering how I had heard the name of Gheriah pronounced between my cousin and Mr.
David, as lieutenant-colonel in the British army, with a record of fame and fortune behind him. New fame, new fortune, awaited him almost on the very moment of his arrival in India. The pirate stronghold of Gheriah fell before him almost as easily as if the place had been a new Jericho and Clive a second Joshua.
"Do you mean that she is in the hands of the pirates at Gheriah?" "That's about what it comes to. And the sooner you give up all thoughts of her the better for you, says I."
My cousin's exultation was very great when he thus had me for the second time in his power. "Now, Master Athelstane," he cried, "we shall see whether you get off as lightly as you did at Gheriah. You are not likely, I think, to be rescued by a fleet this time. But perhaps you will be glad that I should take you without more ado before the Nabob.
David; the king gave him the commission of a lieutenant-colonel in the British army; and thus doubly authorized, he returned to Asia in 1755. The first service on which he was employed after his return to the East was the reduction of the stronghold of Gheriah.
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