[11] Charlevoix gives another instance of that sort of Catholic piety which such ruffians as these find quite compatible with the commission of the blackest crimes. During these expeditions these man-hunters surprised the Reduction of St. Theresa, and carried off all the inhabitants. This happened a few days before Christmas; yet on Christmas day these banditti came to church, every man with a taper in his hand, in order to hear mass. The minute the Jesuit had finished, he mounted the pulpit, and reproached them in the bitterest terms for their injustice and cruelty; to all which they listened with as much calmness as if it did not at all concern them.
[12] “I sincerely believe they are as fine a set of men as ever existed, under the circumstances in which they are placed. In the mines I have seen them using tools which our miners declared they had not strength to work with, and carrying burdens which no man in England could support; and I appeal to those travellers who have been carried over the snow on their backs, whether they were able to have returned the compliment; and if not, what can be more grotesque than the figure of a civilized man riding upon the shoulders of a fellow-creature whose physical strength he has ventured to despise?”
Head’s Rough Notes, p. 112.
[13] Mills’s Hist. of British India, i. 74. Bruce, iii. 78.
[14] According to Orme, 2,750,000l.
[15] Tanjore Papers. Mills’ History.
[16] Governor-general’s own Narrative. Second Report of Select Committee, 1781.
[17] Fifth Parliamentary Report.—Appendix, No. 21.
[18] Mills, ii. 624.
[19] Mills, ii. 480.