The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c7.s9.250

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It does not seem that our East India Company had ever any other factory in the Konkan previous to their acquisition of Bánkot or Fort Victoria in 1756 (see Section VIII)., But in 1668 when the Sidi made overtures to the English at Bombay to assist him, the Factors there suggested to the Supreme Council at Surat the many advantages which Janjira possessed over Bombay.⁸ No notice was taken of the suggestion, but as the history of Janjira does not come within the scope of this memoir it may here be mentioned that, after Bombay and Goa, there is no bay or inlet on the coast of the Konkan of such striking natural beauty as Janjira, while the two rocky islets in the bay are in their present condition much