[191] The (London) Times, March 17, 1859.
[192] Alluding to the famine season, Baron von Schonberg says: “Six hundred children were purchased for eighteen hundred rupees, which certainly was not an exorbitant price.”—Travels in India and Kashmir, vol. i. p. 193. This was at the rate of a dollar and a half a head.
[193] India and the Hindoos, p. 337.
[194] Thirty Years in India, p. 239.
[195] India and the Gospel, p. 279.
[196] The (London) Times, 1858.
[197] “They [the pupils of the secular and missionary schools] have no more faith in Jesus Christ than in their own religion. They believe the Jesus of the English and the Krishna of the Hindoos to be alike impostors.”—Six Years in India, vol. iii. p. 277.
[198] Dante means the Hill of Purgatory, to the ascent of which we are turned no less by the right reason that is in us than by our contrition for an erroneous course, from which we are happily passing.
[199] This stream is called the Sanguinetto.
“But a brook hath ta’en—
—A name of blood from that day’s sanguine rain,
And Sanguinetto tells ye where the dead
Made the earth wet, and turned the unwilling waters red.”