History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c42.s6.13

v3.c42.s6.13

The contemporary European travellers, Bernier and Manucci, give them the lowest possible character: ‘‘These people (says the French doctor) were Christians only in name; the lives led by them were most detestable, massacring or poisoning one another without compunction or remorse, and sometimes assassinating even their priests, who were too often no better than their murderers’’ (p. 174). Manucci knew them to be equally bod, as ‘‘men hard of heart, accustomed to kill even little children without a regret. They boasted among themselves of having reached the very acme of evil-doing. If any one undertook to speak of these men, of their violence and of their barbarous habits, he would find enough to fill several books.’’ (ii. 117.)