Shivaji and His Times c16.4

c16.4

In a parley with Doroji, the Maratha general, the English refused to give up the goods in the junk unless he gave them an order on the revenue of the town for the money claimed by them. The largest junk, which had not been taken over by the English, weighed anchor and fell down the creek to beyond the range of the Maratha guns, after firing on Shiva’s men on both banks. At this disappointment, the Marathas seized the English broker Balji at Jaitapur (at the mouth of the creek, 11 miles west of Rajapur), on the ground that "the English would not take the junk for them, but let her go." (*Ibid*; also Surat Council to Company, 6 April 1660, *F. R. Surat*, Vol. 85.)