Storia do Mogor 281.17.6

281.17.6

After this imprudent admission of the catechist so publicly made, they [the Hindus] communicated the fact repeatedly to their relations and acquaintances, and warned them to be on their guard, and avoid them [the missionaries] as such [i.e., Farangīs]. There was no longer any doubt of their being Farangīs, in spite of their living in all respects disguised as Brahmans, for they had admitted it publicly themselves by the voice of their catechist. Above all was this true of one [Jesuit] then at Tanjor, whom they had themselves seen as one of the Farangis at Pondicherry. As this news spread it raised excessive perplexity in the minds both of the reverend Portuguese Jesuit fathers and of the Hindus : in those of the reverend fathers, because they foresaw the consequences. For this reason they set in motion all their rhetoric, and invented all they could, both of argument and of effort, to bring back minds from this disastrous apprehension. As for the dismay of the Hindus, its reasons have been already so fully touched upon that I hold it useless to repeat them here.