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meiiced at daylight next morning, and two of the Portuguese 

 galleons, endeavouring to run on board the large English 

 ship, got aground, on which the pink or ketch, belonging 

 to the enemy, kept firing its cannon upon one of the ground- 

 ed galleons, till it floated off with the evening tide. The 

 other two galleons fought the large English ship all day. 

 On the third day, all the four galleons being afloat, en- 

 deavoured to board the enemy, who relied on their 

 cannon and swiftness, and sailed away to Castelete, a bay of 

 the pirates near Diu. De Cuxha followed them thither, and 

 again fought them for two days, in all which time the Portu- 

 guese ships could never board them by reason of their unwield- 

 ly bulk. At length the English stood away, shewing black 

 colours in token that their captain was slain. In these long 

 indecisive actions the English and Portuguese both lost a num- 

 ber of men. The English made for Surat, followed still by 

 De Cuxha, on which they left that port, and De Cuxha re- 

 turned to Goa/' How reversed is the order of things now ! 



