That night heavy weather came on, the ship's cable parted, and the _Godolphin_ became a total wreck at the foot of Malabar Hill. Apparently, all the Englishmen on board were saved, among them the second supercargo, a young man named Thomas Chown, who lost all his possessions. There was also in Bombay, at the time, a young factor, William Gyfford, who had come to India, six years before, as a writer, at the age of seventeen. We shall hear of both of them again.
In October, came news of the death of Mr. Robert Mence at Carwar. 'Tho his time there was so small wee find he had misapplyed 1700 and odd pagodas to his own use,' the Bombay Council reported to the Directors in London. In his place was appointed Mr. Miles Fleetwood, who was then in Bombay awaiting a passage to the Persian Gulf where he had been appointed a factor. With him returned to Carwar, Harvey and his wife, to adjust some depending accounts with the country people there.
We get an account of Carwar thirty years before this, from Alexander Hamilton, which shows that there was plenty of sport near at hand for those who were inclined for it, and it is interesting to find that the Englishmen who now travel in search of big game had their predecessors in those days--
"This Country is so famous for hunting, that two Gentlemen of Distinction, viz: Mr. _Lembourg_ of the House of _Lembourg_ in _Germany_, and Mr. _Goring_, a Son of my Lord _Goring's_ in _England_, went _incognito_ in one of the _East India_ Company's Ships, for India. They left Letters directed for their Relations, in the Hands of a Friend of theirs, to be delivered two or three Months after their Departure, so that Letters of Credit followed them by the next Year's Shipping, with Orders from the _East India_ Company to the Chiefs of the Factories, wherever they should happen to come, to treat them according to their Quality. They spent three Years at _Carwar, viz:_ from Anno 1678 to 1681, then being tired with that Sort of Pleasure, they both took Passage on board a Company's Ship for _England_, but Mr. _Goring_ died four days after the Ship's Departure from _Carwar_, and lies buried on the Island of _St. Mary_, about four Leagues from the Shore, off _Batacola_, and Mr. _Lembourg_ returned safe to _England_."