The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c7.s8.253
The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c7.s8.253
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It was just at this time, 1697, when the whole coast was so given up to piracy that the notorious English pirate Captain Kidd appeared in these seas to add to the general terror. On one occasion he escaped from a Dutch and English squadron and got to Rájápur, and off that port plundered a Bombay vessel. His ship was the Adventure galley of thirty guns and thirty oars, and with a crew of 200 Europeans.¹