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Title: A comprehensive history of India, civil, military, and social, from the first landing of the English to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt; including an outline of the early history of Hindoostan Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Beveridge, Henry, 1837-1929 Subjects: Publisher: London, Blackie Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Text Appearing Before Image: r exceeded seventy tons burden, comldnedthe double advantage of sailing and row boats. Besides a very large triangularsail, they were provided with forty to fifty stout oars, which enabled them toact as tugs to the grabs, and pull them even in a calm at the rate of foiu* milesan horn. Thus attacked, it was scarcety possible for a merchant vessel to escape.Her enemies keeping at first at a safe distance, plied her with shot till they haddismasted her or thoroughly damaged her rigging, and then, as she lay helplessin the water, either compelled her to stiike, or boarded her by sending forwarda number of gallivats, each with from 200 to 300 men.F.iiiureof xiie East India Company tried both force and negotiation with Kanhojee. negotiations i ./ o . with them. After an ineffectual attempt to coerce him in 1717, Mr. Charles Boone, thengovernor of Bombay, tried the effect of a written remonstrance, and in Novem-ber, 1720, received a long and rambling, but verj characteristic answer, in which

Text Appearing After Image: This is a ship with three masts, a pointed prow,and a bowsprit. Its crew consists of a nicodar orcaptain, and a few clashics or Moorisli sailors. Thegrabs are built at Bombay, where it appears thatnavigation was brought to some degree of perfection at a very early period. The pointed prow whichdistinguishes the grab belongs to the Hindoo con-struction, and is not met with in any other countri*.The Portuguese have imitated it in their Indianships.—Solvyn, Lcs Mindous. Chap. VII.J THE ANGRIA PIRATES. 511 Kariliojee, instead of seeking to disguise or palliate the principles on which he a.d. 1755.acted, says: As touching tiie desire of possessing what is anothers, I do notfind the merchants exempt from this sort of ambition, for this is the way of theworld; for God gives nothing immediately from himself, but takes from one togive to another. Whether this is right or no, who is able to determine ? It littlebehoves the merchants, I am sure, to say our government is supported by vio-lence,

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