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Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period

Note 4 — CASE OF HENRY EVERY.

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"The royal ship called the Ganj-i sawai, than which there was no larger in the port of Surat, used to sail every year for the House of God [at Mecca, or to Jiddah, its port]. It was now bringing back to Surat fifty-two lacs of rupees in silver and gold, the produce of the sale of Indian goods at Mocha and Jedda." Khafi Khan, ubi sup.

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