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pirate Avery. (B.C.G., ii. 86, 87.) Downing gives an interesting account of Plantain, who appears to have been a first-class scoundrel. Lieutenant-Colonel T. B. Jervis (1796–1857), in his MS. studies of the Marāthā people, gives a brief account of the Angria family, and describes Kanhoji as the son of Tukoji, a Marāthā chief. (J.B.B.R.A.S., xxii. 64.) Jervis’s account is reproduced verbatim on page 660 of Forrest’s Selections (Marāthā Series), i. (1885).]