CHAPTER XI. 
Soon after leaving Surat, I was appointed a member of the 
council at Anjengo, the most southern of the English settlements 
on the Malabar coast, about six hundred miles from Bombay, in 
the latitude of 8° 39' north. We sailed from that island the be- 
ginning of February, 1772, and in a fortnight arrived at Anjengo, 
after a delightful voyage, during which we stopped at most of the 
principal places on the coast. 
A favourable breeze soon carried us past Fort Victoria; the 
next day sailing along the mountainous shores of the Concan, we 
had a distinct view of Rutnah-Gheriah, and several other Mahratta 
fortresses; we then looked into the harbour of Gheriah, the chief 
sea-port on the Malabar coast, defended by a strong fortification, 
and surrounded by a rich territory. Gheriah is in the latitude of 
16° 37" north, twenty-three leagues from Goa; in which distance 
are the forts of Raree and Augustus, conquered by the English, 
from the Malwans, in 1765, then lately ransomed: still nearer to 
Goa is Vingorla, a small town in a hilly country, where the India 
Company had at that time a factory, and collected a small 
revenue. 
The mountainous shore of the Concan is improperly called a 
