I should have gone if it had not been a Council day; but I found afterwards that I had lost nothing.

The whole ceremony consisted in sacrificing bullocks to the manes of the defunct.
The roaring of the poor victims was horrible.

The people stood talking and laughing till a particular signal was made, and immediately all the ladies lifted up their voices and wept.

I have not lived three and thirty years in this world without learning that a bullock roars when he is knocked down, and that a woman can cry whenever she chooses.
"By all that I can learn, the Catholics are the most respectable portion of the native Christians.

As to Swartz's people in the Tanjore, they are a perfect scandal to the religion which they profess.