The greater number of them accepted the terms.

Two years later, a company was sent out under Captain Shaxton to fill vacancies.

Shaxton was evidently a man of good abilities and position; one who had been trained in the stern military school of the civil wars.

He was to be a factor in addition to his military command, and if, after trial, his qualifications would admit of it, he was to hold the office of Deputy Governor.

The men were engaged for three years.
By the time he had been two years in Bombay, Shaxton found that, under the penurious rule of the Company, efficiency was impossible, while the two European companies maintained for the defence of the island could only be kept up to strength by filling the vacancies with natives.