Storia do Mogor 281.19.3

281.19.3

To begin with, about three thousand persons were arrested; of these, some thousand or thereabouts released themselves by money payments under the conditions above detailed. A still greater number took to flight, and of these the property was confiscated like that of the others, excepting what they managed to carry away with them. There were others of the Pariah caste or tribe. Now these people are distinguished from each other by tribes, something like those of the Hebrews, and these divisions they call castes. These Pariahs, then, if once put in prison, were unable to pay a ransom in money, owing to their poverty. On the other hand, they had not the courage necessary for abandoning their ancestral hearths or patrios lares, still less of suffering aught for God or for the Christian religion that they had professed for years past. To gain exemption, at one stroke, from all inconveniences, they returned all of a sudden to their former vomit, and asserted they were Hindus, denying they had ever been anything else. Of this class there were counted as many as five thousand.