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pompous and expensive style of its preparations, or the injustice of its 
object. If it be the aim of conquest to disturb and plunder a remote 
and inoffensive people, content with a region hardly suited to human 
habitation, but which indeed a beneficent Creator has planted with 
inhabitants adapted to its nature, such is the fate it justly deserves. 
Yet the fanatical zeal of the Mussulman historian, who can acknow- 
ledge no virtue, when opposed to the followers of the faith, unmercifully 
loads these poor persecuted beings, on account of their providential 
escape from the chains that had been forged for them, with the epithets 
of Kaufir, Booht, Shitan; Infidels. Hobgoblins , and Devils . 
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