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 202 FIRST SETTLEMENTS ON THE BOMBAY COAST empire left the real administration of Gujarat in the hands of the governor who had seen us shatter the Portuguese fleet. Indeed the Emperor Jahangir com- plains in his " Memoirs " that this too liberal official bought from the Europeans a turkey and other curi- osities quite regardless of the price. 1 An annalist makes the transaction take place at " Gogo " (Goa), in whose safe anchorage on the opposite side of the Cambay Gulf, our ships, when driven from the Suwali roadstead, could always find shelter. According to let- ters from India to the Company in 1616 and 1617, the only drawbacks to the Company's success at Surat were the " voluntaries,' ' or private traders from England, who began to creep in, and who, when their speculations failed, became a burden on the factory, or turned Mo- hammedans " to keep them from starving." More formidable rivals soon came upon the scene. In 1616 a Dutch ship under Van den Broeck appeared in the roadstead, but was not allowed to establish a fac- tory. Next year two Dutch ships got wrecked off the coast, and ten of the survivors remained at Surat. In 1618 they received a license from the Moghul govern- ment, notwithstanding the efforts of Sir Thomas Roe to " turn them out," and in 1620 Van den Broeck re- 1 The turkey seems to have been introduced into India by the Portuguese. Its present Hindustani name, piru, is identical with the Portuguese peru, derived from Peruana (Peru) in its old wider sense. Peruana and Guyana were used to denote Spanish-America at least as late as the almanacs of Charles IPs reign ; and the turkey, probably brought by Cortez to Spain, was long called the Guinea fowl. In Hindustani it preserves the other old name of Spanish-Amer- ica, Peruana. Bluteau, in his Vvcabulario Portuguez e Latino, 1720, gives no cer- tain sound.