In
This Affair Humphrey Elkington Was Shot Through The Thigh With An Arrow,
One Of The Horsemen Sent By Surder Khan To Guard Our People Was Killed,
And Mr Aldworth's Horse Sore Wounded.
The nabob sent me word that the
viceroy proposed to assault me this day, and therefore sent Coge Nozan
to guard the land.
Nozan came accordingly to the water side, and sent
his son, Mamud Iehad, to visit me on board, accompanied by a chief
named Kemagee, the son of Leckdarsee, rajput chieftain of Guigamar
or Castelletto,[129] who had for a long time maintained war with the
Moguls and Portuguese. These chiefs entreated permission to see and
partake in the fight, and as no assault was made that day, they remained
all night on board. The rajput chief went ashore next morning, but the
other remained on board two or three days, and seeing the enemy would do
nothing, he went likewise ashore.
[Footnote 129: On a former occasion supposed to have been
Jumbosier. - E.]
On the forenoon of the 8th, we received more indigo aboard, and in the
afternoon all the Portuguese frigates, with the two junks, and two
gallies, came driving up with the flood, as if for some attempt against
us, either by fire, which I most doubted, or otherwise. We therefore got
under weigh and advanced to meet them, upon which they all made off as
fast as they could, and we came again to anchor. This was merely a
device, to make us believe their fire-boats were to come against us
from the south, and that we might have no suspicion of their coming from
the northwards; wherefore they again assembled all their junks,
frigates, and galleys next night, a little without the sands, to call
our attention from the northern quarter.
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