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Volume 18 · 80 words · 1842 Edition

a sea-port town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, and district of Okamindel. The inhabitants, like those of many others of the coast towns in India, have been long addicted to piracy; which was prosecuted with ardour, notwithstanding an agreement between the chiefs and the British to lay aside these depredations. A British force was in consequence sent against the town, which was taken, and the walls levelled with the ground. Long. 69. 17. E. Lat. 22. 23. N.