[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 238.3.7 # Storia do Mogor 238.3.7 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 238.3.7 - **Language:** English ### [238.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.238.3.7) Verily it produces desperation to be dependent on the men and women slaves of India. In them is no goodness; they are full of malice, generally thieves, false, traitors, deniers, slothful, loquacious; incapable of secrecy, devoid of love and fidelity, for ever complaining of their masters. Treat them tenderly as your children, and they behave the worse; and to get any work done you must act against them harshly, and make them do their duty by force. They serve you by fear of blows, and not from duty or love. Generally speaking, the free servants are just the same. The soldiers when on the march suffer much insolence and endure many disagreeables. The masters suffer out of necessity, from which cause they exercise patience, because, should anyone try to remedy matters, the servants leave him. In the case of a soldier, he would then have to look after his own horses, camels, tents, and cooking—an impossible thing. - [Previous: 238.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.238.3.6) - [Next: 238.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.238.3.8) - [Up: 238.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.238.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.238.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.238.3.7) · Pramāṇa