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GOA AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.
Holy Tribunal are not so infallible as those of the
Divine Author of Christianity. The horror-struck
auditor instantly denounced him with a variety of
additions and emendations sufficient to make his
case very likely to conclude with strangling and
burning.
Perceiving a storm impending over him, our
physician waited upon the Commissary of the In-
quisition, if possible to avert the now imminent
danger. That gentlemanly old person seems to have
received him with uncommon urbanity, benevolently
offered much good advice, and lodged him in jail
with all possible expedition.
The prison at Daman is described as a most
horrible place ; hot, damp, fetid, dark, and crowded.
The inmates were half starved, and so miserable
that forty out of fifty Malabar pirates, who had been
imprisoned there, preferred strangling themselves
with their turbans to enduring the tortures of
such an earthly Hades.
The first specimen of savoir faire displayed by
the Doctor's enemies was to detain him in the
Daman jail till the triennial Auto da Fe at Goa had
taken place ; thereby causing for him at least two
years' delay and imprisonment in the capital before
he could be brought to trial. Having succeeded in
GOA AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.
Holy Tribunal are not so infallible as those of the
Divine Author of Christianity. The horror-struck
auditor instantly denounced him with a variety of
additions and emendations sufficient to make his
case very likely to conclude with strangling and
burning.
Perceiving a storm impending over him, our
physician waited upon the Commissary of the In-
quisition, if possible to avert the now imminent
danger. That gentlemanly old person seems to have
received him with uncommon urbanity, benevolently
offered much good advice, and lodged him in jail
with all possible expedition.
The prison at Daman is described as a most
horrible place ; hot, damp, fetid, dark, and crowded.
The inmates were half starved, and so miserable
that forty out of fifty Malabar pirates, who had been
imprisoned there, preferred strangling themselves
with their turbans to enduring the tortures of
such an earthly Hades.
The first specimen of savoir faire displayed by
the Doctor's enemies was to detain him in the
Daman jail till the triennial Auto da Fe at Goa had
taken place ; thereby causing for him at least two
years' delay and imprisonment in the capital before
he could be brought to trial. Having succeeded in