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of their being essential to his salvation. In 

 describing a few of their customs and manu- 

 factories I have been led on to make these 

 general observations, which were strongly im- 

 pressed on my mind, and having written thus 

 much, I shall further observe that I am fearful 

 of the consequences of missionaries and others 

 interfering with their religion, lest in their 

 anxiety to remove some of their long esta- 

 blished customs, they should go too far, and 

 cause the whole country to revolt; even 

 should they succeed in dissuading them from 

 their religion, the question is, will they be 

 able to persuade them to adopt another ? and 

 if in this latter case they should not succeed, 

 I conceive they would deprive them of the 

 greatest comfort in this life, Faith in their 

 religion. 



We should not hastily condemn the cus- 

 toms of the Hindoos because they are riot 

 agreeable to our own way of thinking. It 

 would ill become a man who is fond of hunt- 

 ing and shooting to condemn as a foolish pre- 



