Gheriah

East was the reduction of the stronghold of Gheriah.

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It might be a hanging matter if it was known I had been in the boat that escaped from Gheriah.

Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894

Now when we came out here, the lieutenant he says, 'Let's go into Gheriah, and join the pirates there' -- though according to him they aren't what you may call pirates, being under a king of their own, who has as much right to give them commissions as King George himself.

Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894

However, I knew from the boatswain that Rupert was first for throwing me overboard; and when Muzzy, who had much authority with the crew, would not consent to that, he was for putting me into the castle at Gheriah, along with the late captain.

Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894

Gheriah pronounced between my cousin and Mr. Sims in the parlour of the "Three-decker", and feeling a dreadful apprehension that I was to meet with the privateers (as they called themselves) in circumstances which I had little desired.

Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894

After all our hostilities against each other in Great Yarmouth, at Gheriah, and in Calcutta, we were now in Moorshedabad, bound together by a common purpose, and that purpose concerned with her who had originally been the cause of our enmity.

Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894

He asked me many questions about the taking of Gheriah, and also about

Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894

"You don't mean to leave me as you did in Gheriah in that horrid cell, from which I scarcely escaped alive?"

Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894

I allowed myself to be tempted to leave them secretly, under cover of a falsehood, and to join a crew of privateers, who turned out to be pirates, the comrades of those whom you destroyed at Gheriah.

Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894

"Do you mean that she is in the hands of the pirates at Gheriah?"

Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894