History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c83.s8.16

v5.c83.s8.16

The first news of the outrage had been brought to Surat some days earlier, by a *huri* boat of the *Ganj-i-sawai* in which nine of its sailors had escaped by cutting their ropes at the first attack of the pirates. Immediately on hearing of it, Itimad Khan, the governor of Surat, had sent out the small Mughal flotilla of the port with four boats borrowed from the Dutch and the French, to assist the *Ganj-i-sawai*. They had returned to Surat without being able to find out the unhappy vessel.*