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Updated: May 10, 2025
He asked me many questions about the taking of Gheriah, and also about Mr Robert Clive, whose character stood high in the estimation of every one in Bengal, even the Moors having bestowed on him the name of Sabat Jung, signifying the daring in war. "We had heard of this affair before you came," Mr. Holwell told me.
"You don't mean to leave me as you did in Gheriah in that horrid cell, from which I scarcely escaped alive?" "Pooh, pooh, girl! No," he answered lightly, "I shall be at hand. It is nothing. What is one night's captivity? The soldiers will have orders to find you some comfortable room in the fort. I will see about your accommodation myself."
He himself, with the rest of his fleet, and the captured Dutch sloop, sailed into Gheriah; and the craft, in which Charlie and his companions were imprisoned, continued her course to the island stronghold of the pirates. Suwarndrug was built on a rocky island. It lay within gunshot of the shore.
After all our hostilities against each other in Great Yarmouth, at Gheriah, and in Calcutta, we were now in Moorshedabad, bound together by a common purpose, and that purpose concerned with her who had originally been the cause of our enmity.
The peishwar had already asked them to aid him in his attack upon Angria, and Commodore James was now sent, with the Protector and two other ships, to reconnoitre Gheriah, which no Englishman then living had seen. The natives described it as of enormous strength, and it was believed that it was an Eastern Gibraltar. Commodore James found the enemy's fleet at anchor in the harbour.
So the crew they sided with the lieutenant, that's your cousin, and the end of it was there was a sort of a mutiny, and Captain Sims he was carried ashore at Gheriah and given up to the pirates, leastways to their king, and the lieutenant took his place." "Then the long and short of it is that this is a pirate ship," was all I could say. "Well, we are, and, in a manner of speaking, we aren't.
When we want to come into Bombay here we sail under King George's flag, and when we're in company with the pirates we fly theirs. Any way, we've taken two Dutch ships and an English one since we got out here, and that's put money in our pockets, which is more than Captain Sims would have done with his lawyering." "And I suppose I am to be carried to Gheriah and given up to the pirates, like Mr.
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