Manchua
[2] Traveler Peter Mundy sketched a manchua in his journals and described them as "small vessells of recreation, used by the Portugalls here, as allsoe att Goa, pretty handsome things resembling little Frigatts, Many curiously carved, guilded and painted, with little beake heads."[2] Also spelled munchua, monchew, munchew, or manchooa, Manchua is called "the Portuguese form" in Hobson-Jobson, which claims that "the original Malayālam word is manji, [manchi, Skt.[1] Clement Downing noted that in the early 18th century, the "town of Bombay was unwalled, and no Grabs or Frigates to protect any thing but the Fishery ; except a small Munchew, which had escaped when Angria took the Company’s Yacht."[3] Carpenter Richard Lazenby was abducted by pirates Seagar, England, Taylor, and Levasseur in 1720 and recorded the capture of one of these vessels in his journals: "They not liking to trust him being a stranger, resolved of seeking water at the Lacker Diva Islands, which they put for directly where they arrived in three days after.The same day of their arrival they took a small Monchew with the Governor of Carwar’s pass on board, who gave them an account that there was no anchor ground among the islands.
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