Storia do Mogor 255.2.5

255.2.5

These rajahs have still another measure of policy — the keeping as prisoners of those who will succeed them. This they do as long as they live ; no sooner do the rulers die than the chief men of the country release those prisoners, proclaim them, and crown them as rajah. However, it is noticeable that, though the rajahs take all this trouble to suppress treason or alteration in the government, such things are continually happening, from an absence of justice, which can never be well exercised where there is a want of experience. Having set forth the cruelty and bad usage meted out by the Hindus to the natives of the country, their natural-born subjects, it is easy to picture their dealings with foreigners. It is impossible to live among people so barbarous, such enemies of all kinds of justice and sound reason.