[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) › 255.2.4 # Storia do Mogor 255.2.4 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 255.2.4 - **Language:** English ### [255.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.255.2.4) As for thefts happening at night, they ask to be shown the thief, and forthwith he shall be made to pay. If anyone ventures to open his mouth, and asserts that everything he had has been taken, that he shall go to the superior officer to complain, these same watchmen seek him out at night, and, if they do not kill him, give him a sound beating. They strip him of all he has, and warn him that if he opens his mouth on the matter they will kill him and all his relations. The guardians of the realm, let alone their being the most ambitious and the most inhuman of human beings, kill or procure the killing of anybody and everybody for a mere nothing, and carry on such a disastrous warfare against each other that it is rare to see one of them die of disease. The cruelties perpetrated in some other of the kingdoms are not less severe, principally in the lands subject to certain rajahs. Here is one sample. If, for instance, there be born a son to a rajah or to one of his relations on a day held by them of evil augury, adopting the advice of Brahmans, they endeavour to avert the day's malignant influence by sending men out on that and the following nights to burn down one or two villages, or sometimes more. Since almost all the houses are thatched with straw or grass, many poor persons lose their lives as well as all their property. - [Previous: 255.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.255.2.3) - [Next: 255.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.255.2.5) - [Up: 255.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.255.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.255.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.255.2.4) · Pramāṇa