The superior sailing powers of the pirates enabled them to do as they pleased.
When they overtook the rearmost of the ships Brown had still got with him, they backed their sails and fired into them till they had got well ahead again.

In this ignominious fashion the greater part of the fleet was shuffled along for two days by the pirates, as a flock of sheep is driven by a couple of sheep-dogs, till they at last found refuge in Goa.

The soldiers on board the _London_ improved the occasion by breaking into the 'Lazaretto' and getting drunk on the wine they found there.

Part of the fleet made for Carwar, and others found safety under the guns of Anjediva.
The pirates, having effected their purpose of driving them off, turned south and took the _Elizabeth_ at anchor off Honore.
Before long, an indignant letter from Boone ordered Brown to cruise southward and engage the pirates at all hazards; so the unhappy Brown put to sea again.

The news of the capture of the _Elizabeth_ was enough for him: on the third day he turned northward again and made for Bombay; to make his peace with the exasperated Governor as he best could.