In addition to the menace posted by the Mughals, the Sidis and Shivaji, the early in habitants of Bombay also suffered from the depredations of commos pirates, both Mahratta and Malabar, fear of a Ducth attack (during the Ducth war with England) and intermittent trouble for the Portuguese , were not above combining with one the force mentioned above if they thought it was to their advantage. But it was not the enemies without that brought Bombay low in the years following Aungier’s death and came near to destroying it, but the enemy within, for Bombay, isola del buan via, so promising of Eden, so lovely with its fringed palm groves set in its blue sea, had reveals itself by the 1680s to be a place of death.