Captain Taylor detained some of the officers and men belonging to Captain Mackra, and having repaired their vessel, sailed for India.  The day before they made land, they espied two ships to the eastward, and supposing them to be English, Captain Taylor ordered one of the officers of Mackra’s ship to communicate to him the private signals between the Company’s ships, swearing that if he did not do so immediately, he would cut him into pound pieces.  But the poor man being unable to give the information demanded, was under the necessity of enduring their threats.  Arrived at the vessels, they found that they were two Moorish ships, laden with horses.  The pirates brought the captains and merchants on board, and tortured them in a barbarous manner, to constrain them to tell where they had hid their treasure.  They were, however, disappointed; and the next morning they discovered land, and at the same time a fleet on shore plying to windward.  In this situation they were at a considerable loss how to dispose of their prizes.  To let them go would lead to their discovery, and thus defeat the design of their voyage; and it was a distressing matter to sink the men and the horses, though many of them were for adopting that measure.  They, however, brought them to anchor, threw all the sails overboard, and cut one of the masts half through.

While they lay at anchor, and were employed in taking in water, one of the above-mentioned fleet moved towards them with English colors, and was answered by the pirate with a red ensign; but they did not hail each other.  At night they left the Muscat ships, and sailed after the fleet.  About four next morning, the pirates were in the midst of the fleet, but seeing their vast superiority, were greatly at a loss what method to adopt.  The Victory had become leaky, and their hands were so few in number, that it only remained for them to deceive, if possible, the English squadron.  They were unsuccessful in gaining any thing out of that fleet, and had only the wretched satisfaction of burning a single galley.  They however that day seized a galliot laden with cotton, and made inquiry of the men concerning the fleet.  They protested that they had not seen a ship since they left Gogo, and earnestly implored their mercy; but, instead of treating them with lenity, they put them to the rack, in order to extort farther confession.  The day following, a fresh easterly wind blew hard, and rent the galliot’s sails; upon this the pirates put her company into a boat, with nothing but a try-sail, no provisions, and only four gallons of water, and, though they were out of sight of land, left them to shift for themselves.

It may be proper to inform our readers, that one Angria, an Indian prince, of considerable territory and strength, had proved a troublesome enemy to Europeans, and particularly to the English.  Calaba was his principal fort, situated not many leagues from Bombay, and he possessed an island in sight of the port, from whence he molested the Company’s ships.  His art in bribing the ministers of the Great Mogul, and the shallowness of the water, that prevented large ships of war from approaching, were the principal causes of his safety.