[3] The chief of the Comoro Islands, in the Mozambique Channel, northwest of Madagascar. The document which follows is also printed, from a manuscript in the India Office, in the Hakluyt Society's Diary of William Hedges, II. cxxxviii-cxxxix, where are other extracts concerning Every.
[4] The expedition which sailed for Spain in the spring of 1694, to deter the French from attacking Barcelona.
[5] Ensign.
[6] [Document no. 59], post.
[7] Aurangzeb, the Mogul emperor of Hindustan.
[8] Surat, 150 miles north of Bombay, and the seat of an important trading factory of the East India Company.
59. Extract, E.I. Co. Letter from Bombay. May 28, 1695.[1]
Extract of a Clause in the Generall Letter from Bombay dated the 28th May, 1695.
By our shipping now arrived who touched at Johanna Wee have News That Strongs ship which was one of them that w[ent] for the Spanish Expedition is runn away with from the Groyn[2] and come into these seas carrying 46 Guns and 130 men, as your Honours will perceive by Copy of the Captains Letter left at Johanna that accompanyes this. Your Honours Ships going into that Island gave him chase, but hee was too nimble for them by much, having taken down a great deal of his upper work and made her exceeding snugg, which advantage being added to her well sailing before, causes her to sail so hard now that shee fears not who follows her. This Ship will undoubtedly into the Red Seas and Wee fear disappoint us of Our above expected Goods, And it is probable will after shee had ransacked that Gulph proceed to Persia and doe what mischief possible there, which will procure infinite clamours at Suratt and the Government will be for embargoing all that ever Wee have there.
[1] London, Privy Council, Unbound Papers, 1:46, accompanying our [no. 58]. Bombay was the main post of the East India Company; a council there supervised all its trade along the west coast of Hindustan.