Shivaji and His Times c12.s2.6

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∗ Sabh. 68. Ghurabs are floating batteries or gun-boats carrying two masts and moving slowly. Gallivats are vessels constructed for swift sailing. Shibars are trading boats, manchwas being a stronger kind of trading vessel than shibars. (Orme's Frag. Sec. 1.) A tarande is a large sailing vessel. The machwa (a round-built two-masted craft of from 3 to 20 tons) and the shibar (a large square-sterned, flat-bottomed vessel with 2 masts but no deck) are described in Bom. Gaz. xiii. pt. ii, 717. Sabhasad, 68, speaks of Daria Sarang as a Musalman and of Mai Nayak as a Hindu of the Bhandari caste. But a Bombay letter dated 21 Nov. 1670 says, "The admiral of the [Maratha] fleet is one Ventgee Sarungee, commonly called Durrea Sarangee." Another Bombay letter, 11 Sep. 1679, speaks of 'Mia Nayak, a Bhandari of Rajapur.' (Orme MSS. 116.) Daulat Khan was an officer distinct from the Daria Sarang (Rajwade, viii. 27 and T. S.)