Storia do Mogor 354.1.4

354.1.4

Many traders who had means of living comfortably left the territory owing to the insults of the Jesuits, who would not let the people live in peace. When they met Hindus in the street they spat in their faces, making use of various abusive words about them and their idols. When the whole of the Hindus had assembled, as I said, in a street of some width and length preparatory to quitting the town, Father Taxar [Tachard], the Jesuit general, who was the principal leader in this disturbance, resorted to the fortress in a passion, and urged the governor to fire cannon at the people. The father suggested that it was a good opening for killing them.