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soon as the war in Europe was over. Before this, in February 1707, the
ship " Diamond " was captured by pirates on a voyage from Bombay to
Bandar ^bbas.
The invasion of Persia by the Afghans in 1721-22 was accompanied Attack by
by an incursion of Balucliis from Makran into Kirman and Lar, where {^English
they committed serious depredations. In November 1721 the Baluchi and Dutch
hordes attacked the town of Lar, and in particular a caravansarai occupied Bandai- 68 ^
by twelve Dutchmen who were escorting- treasure of the Dutch East '^bbas, 1721.
India Company; but the Hollanders beat off the attack with great loss
to their assailants and with none to themselves, and subsequently,
having removed into the Lar fort, defended that also with success. On
the 15th of December the Baluchi host appeared before Bandar 'Abbas ;
but the English and Dutch there had received timely notice of their
approach and had placed the Factories in a good state of defence before
their arrival. The first attack was made on the English Factory and was
beaten off; and a second, attempted two days later on the Dutch Factory,
which was much stronger, was equally unsuccessful; a Dutch warehouse
however, within a pistol-shot of the Dutch Factory, fell into the hands
of the Baluchis, who pillaged it of goods to the value of £20,000. The
siege continued for 10 or 12 days, during which the Baluchis occupied
the town ; at their departure they reduced the place to ashes, and they
did not finally quit the neighbourhood until about a month later. The
garrison of the English Factory at Bandar 'Abbas, about 50 strong
and consisting almost altogether of sailors, had three or four men killed
and seven wounded, and one of the latter, a Factor, subsequently died;
the loss of the Dutch was twelve men killed and eight or ten wounded.*
Several references have been made above to the English moiety of History of
the Bandar J Abbas customs, which continued to be a perennial cause of ^
j . T-n-rTi-i • share or the
dispute between the East India Company and the Persian Government; Bandar
bu 1 a more detailed and connected account of the question may be added tmus^iess'
here. 1722.
In 1662 Mr. Richard Craddock, on being sent to take charge of the 1662-73.
Company's interests in Persia, was instructed to demand payment of
1,000 Tumans, but he was authorised at the same time to accept 400
Tumans or any arger sum. In the first year of his residence in Persia,
probably in 1668, Mr. Holt succeeded in recovering 850 Tumans; but in
1670 the Agent found himself obliged to recommend that a small naval
• These proceedings are fully described by Hamilton, who himself took part in
them, in his New Account oftl\e Bast Indies, Vol. I, pages 107-110. Malcolm makes
the year 1724 and the assailants Afghans, but the personal testimony of Hamilton
must be preferred.