Storia do Mogor 281.8.7

281.8.7

In effect, the name that these fathers bear in India and in Portugal denotes the exact contrary to what is their actual conduct. For, as they call themselves Jesuits in India and Apostolic in the other place, people expect to find in them a charity which is veritably Apostolic and Christian. In this those poor men are deceived, for they are waited on in the hospital most carelessly by Canarese or Topasses [native or half-caste Christians], who frequently demand payment for even the water they require. If they have not the means of paying they have to do without. Even then, in the end, those shameless fellows go and complain to the Father Administrator that the unhappy men have declined to obey the rules of diet imposed on them as necessary. Thereupon they are often placed in the cells, which are underground, and so damp that more often than not they die there after a few days.