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with supplies from Bushehr, succeeded in approaching, boarding and
capturing two Dutch gallivats that lay immediately under the gam
o£ the Kharag fort. After this exploit, M5r Mahanna in person made
a descent on the island with about 100 men and even approached tie
fort • but, on a party of 25 Europeans with two field guns turning out
to engage him, be took flight under cover of some rocks and escaped by
sea As a precaution against the recurrence of such attempts, the forti
fications of Kharag were then added to, and a wall was built to encta
some habitations and warehouses that had hitherto stood in the open
Mr. van der Hnlet did not enjoy the favour of the Dutch ^Governor o
Batavia, to whom he was subordinate, and in or about 1761 he was
recalled to headquarters; but'at Bandar'Abbas he quitted the ship on
which he was travelling, placed himself under the protection of the
British, and returned to Europe vid Bombay.
TheDntoh Mr. van derHulst was followed in office by Mr. Buschman, *ho
settlement had been one of the original members of the Dutch staff on arag,
under Mr 8 an d of whose eccentric personality tbe traveller Niebuhr has e an
mtT"' interesting account. His two predecessors had been constantly on bad
terms, and sometimes at open war, with their Arab neighbours, especia y
Mir Mahanna; but Mr. Buscbman was able, by better management,
to establish more satisfactory relations. On Mir Mahanna deputing a
principal man with an armed escort to discuss matters with him ami
perhaps to seize tbe Dutch settlement if an opportunity of doing s.
should present itself—Mr. Bnscbman made such a judiciously osten a-
tious display of all bis military resources as led the envoy to pronounce
tlie fort impregnable and to persuade his master to agree to the con i
tions desired by the Dutch,
History of The Dutch Factory at Bandar 'Abbas continued m existence fur about
Factorial five years after the foundation of the settlement on Kharag, and for a
'AbMsfrom time the staff there maintained a close competition with the British in the
1753 till its Kirmail wool tra ae, sometimes offering to pay 10 Shahis a maund more
1759™ ln than the British Linguist would give. The British on their part neglected
no means of competition but secured specimens of Dutch cloth b o 0
which sold well, ascertained the prices, and caused imitations to be manu
factured in England and the trade of the Dutch in woollens graduall) cea^
at Bandar 'Abbas, where after 1754 they imported no more goods o
kind. At length it became known that the Dutch intended to retire fro
Bandar 'Abbas, and about the end of 1758 a vessel arrived there, on ' ^
most of their goods and the treasure of their Factory were remoH