The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago by John Biddulph
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noseless company--Angria recommences attacks--Abortive expedition against
Gheriah--Downing's account of it--Preparations to attack Kennery ... CHAPTER V THE COMPANY'S SERVANTS The Company's civil servants--Their comparison with English who went to America--Their miserable salaries--The Company's military servants--Regarded with distrust--Shaxton's mutiny--Captain Keigwin--Broken pledges and ill-treatment--Directors' vacillating policy--Military grievances--Keigwin seizes the administration of Bombay--His wise rule--Makes his submission to the Crown--Low status of Company's military officers--Lord Egmont's speech--Factors and writers as generals and colonels--Bad quality of the common soldiers--Their bad treatment--Complaint against Midford--Directors' parsimony ... CHAPTER VI EXPEDITION AGAINST KENNERY Sivajee's occupation of Kennery--A naval action--Minchin and Keigwin--Bombay threatened--The Seedee intervenes--Conajee Angria occupies Kennery--Boone sails with the expedition--Manuel de Castro--Futile proceedings--Force landed and repulsed--Second landing--Manuel de Castro's treachery--Gideon Russell--Bad behaviour of two captains--Defeat--Attack abandoned--The _St. George_--The _Phram_--Manuel de Castro punished--Bombay wall completed--Angria makes overtures for peace--Boone |
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