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PLACES
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KIHIM
Kihim (T. Alibag; 18°40' N. 72°50' E; p. 1728; RS. Bombay, 19 m.) fifteen miles south of Bombay and five north of Alibag is a large village in the Alibag taluka. It is a large scattered village nearly surrounded with a wood which is thick enough to cut off the sea breeze. At Navgahv village, two miles south of Kihim, are two large graves, the one to the north said to be of male and the one to the south of female Bene-Israels who are said to have been shipwrecked when they first arrived on the Alibag coast. About 150 paces from the two mounds are about 500 separate graves said to belong to the Black and White Bene-Israels of the neighbourhood. [Mr. R. Courtenay, C. S.]
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