Administrative System of the Marathas c19.s10.9

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⁴⁹ Broughton, p. 75. Compare with this the harsh treatment by the Portuguese of their slaves—"She imprisoned in her house one other slaves for having stolen something. By reason of severe punishment and deprivation of food he died, and was buried in the dunghill...... This murder of slaves and slave girls is common among the Portuguese, and few are the houses in which the skeletons of their bodies would not be found." Manucci, ed. Irvine, Vol. III, p. 113.