ABSTRACT
Governor's guests would be taken to see the cave-temples. That Governor Charles Boone should, in 1719, have acquired so large a country house as Parell is a sign of his self-confidence; for under his vigorous rule the settlement first began to recover. From the time of William Hornby, who was Governor in the seventeen-seventies, the Governors lived increasingly at Parell, preferring it to the airless Government House in the Fort, though the latter remained their official residence until 1829. The learned Recorder of Bombay, Sir James Mackintosh, who was lent Parell from 1804 to 1812, would go for a dawn canter in the Mahim woods, riding an Arab called 'Sir Charles Grey' while his companion's mount was named 'Bobberywallah'. A Governor like Malcolm, who was himself an 'old Indian', would have had plenty of common ground with these people; but the Falklands came of the new breed of aristocratic Lord Sahibs and Lady Sahibs fresh from England.
