20 KALM S ENGLAND. 



Angria* in which captivity he had been for more than 

 two years [T. I. p. 370.] before he had made his escape. 

 He told us what means this sea-rover used to make his 

 ships sail very fast, so that no European ship could get 

 away from him, so that he could not overtake it, med 

 mindre han ju skulle fa det fast, which consisted in 

 this, that he never kept any of his ships in the sea over a 

 month ; after the lapse of which time he had it carried 

 into some dock, tapped off the water, and afterwards 

 made them polish the ship quite smooth and slippery 

 with cocoa-nuts which were cloven in two. With these 

 cocoa-nuts the ship was polished on the outside, that is 

 to say, the part of the ship which was under water, 

 so long that there was not much left of the cocoa- 

 nut ; and as the cocoa-nut has at the same time an 

 abundance of oil in it, so the surface of the ship was 

 doubly polished and made slippery, glatt OCh halt. 

 First the cocoa-nut, by its hardness, made the ship in the 

 polishing quite smooth and polished, slatt OCh glatt, 

 and secondly, the oil of the cocoa-nut made it so slippery, 

 halt, that it went incredibly fast through the water, and 

 had from it very little resistance. After the lapse of a 

 month the oil began to diminish, and a number of Testacea, 

 or snails, snackor, mussels, musslor, and such-like: 

 shell-fish, skal djur, fastened on to the ship, from which 

 cause the ship took to going somewhat slower ; wherefore 

 he at once had it drawn up on the land, or carried it into 

 a dock, made them scrape off that which had fastened 

 upon it, and polish it, as has been said. In this way he 

 put himself in a position that no European ship could 



*The piratical state, founded by Konna Ji Angria, in the middle of the" 

 XVIIth century, flourished for more than ioo years, though the English, 

 Portuguese and Dutch tried to destroy it. Col. Clive and Admiral Watson 

 at last succeeded, and on the 13th February, 1757, took Geriah, then the chief 

 stronghold of the Angrias, and broke their power. [F. W. L.] 



