His young wife doubtless assisted him in his complicated accounts, and gained some knowledge of local trade.  It must have been a wonderful delight to her to escape from the dulness of Carwar and mix in the larger society of Bombay, and she must have realized with sadness the mistake she had made in marrying a deformed man old enough to be her grandfather, at the solicitation of her parents.  She made, at this time, two acquaintances that were destined to have considerable influence on her future life.  On the 5th August, the Godolphin, twenty-one days from Mocha, approached Bombay, but being unable to make the harbour before nightfall, anchored outside; a proceeding that would appear, even to a landsman, absolutely suicidal in the middle of the monsoon, but was probably due to fear of pirates.[3]

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