104 WESTERN HINDOOSTAN. 



of the Engli/Jj at Bombay. He fortified this little fpot. Finding 

 oiirfelves too weak to remove fo dangerous a neighbor, we ftir- 

 red up againft him the Siddee, or admiral to Aurengzebe. This 

 - brought on feveral fliarp naval adlions *. The Siddee feized on 

 the n^ighhormg Hunary, and each party carrying on a cruel 

 war, gave importance to thefe inconliderable fpots. 



Chocle. Cboiile and Vicioria, and feveral other fmall places, are given 



in the charts on this coaft. Duiida Rajapore was a port, the 

 rendezvous of Aurengzebe'i, fleet, under the command of his 

 Siddee, The Siddee was an office formed at the time when the 

 Mogul empire firft extended itfelf to thefe coafls. Its duty was 

 like that of the Comes Littoris Saxonici, on the French and Britijb 

 fliores, and 'svas here intended to repel the infults of the Mala- 

 bar or Portuguefe cruizers ; as the Roman Comes was thofe of 

 the Norman rovers. In the year 1682 there were a hundred and 

 twenty Gallivats, and .fifteen Grabs ; and a vaft army encamped 

 in the neighborhood. 



Correfpondent to them, were Nitrias, the modern Neivtya^ 

 lynadiSf MuziriSy and numbers of other ports mentioned by the 



Pirate Coast, Greek and Roman hiftorians. This is the Pirate coaji, and 

 extends almoft from Bombay till we have arrived very near to 

 Goa. The Romans were obliged to put on board their merchant- 

 fliips a number of archers to defend them againft the attacks of 

 the pirates I, which, according to the Univerfal Hijiory, x. p. 267, 

 are faid to have been Arabians. Mr. Rennel gives an admi- 

 rable defcription of this extent of free-booters. 



* Orme's Fragments, 122. f P^'". Nat, Hift. lib. vi. c. 23. 



** Perhaps 



