[8] Still further south, on the Malabar coast; still on the west coast of Hindustan, of which Cape Comorin, below, is the southernmost point.
[9] Arabic gurab, a large coasting-vessel.
[10] Malacca.
[11] Mauritius, then a Dutch island.
[12] See paragraphs 12, 13, in Capt. Adam Baldridge's deposition, [no. 68], infra. Governor Fletcher of New York, July 16, 1695, had given Hoar a commission as a privateer to cruise against the French in the John and Rebecca. Glover and Hoar were brothers-in-law. Cal. St. P. Col., 1697-1698, p. 108.
[13] See [document no. 68], post.
[14] See [document no. 63], [note 21].
[15] On the southwest coast of Madagascar.
[16] St. Helena was then already an English island, with about a thousand inhabitants.
[17] All these figure in the accusations against Fletcher in N.Y. Col. Doc., IV.