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overhauled in the course of his operations against the Turks, made a tremendous impression in an age and a region in which the rule of the sea was the might of the strongest. Carried by the Indian nacodahs, or captains, to India, the account of the mildness and fair dealing of this great strong man, who did not hesitate to bring to book the insolent minions of the dreaded Grand Seignor, excited a lively feeling of friendship and gratitude and did much beyond question to pave the way for that early concession to the English of the full right to trade which was of such vital importance to our nation in the subsequent struggle for commercial supremacy on the Indian Peninsula.
