. A new system of geography: or, A general description of the world. Containing a particular and circumstantial account of all the countries, kingdoms, and states of Europe, Asia, Africa, and With the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects, the various vegetables, and minerals, found in different regions . gft them, and that the horror of(bedding blood would endanger every Gentoo ftate, andrender it a prey to the firft invader ; but that fo rich anddelightful a country might not want defenders, the pro-vince of war was, according to the Gentoo fyftcm ofreligion, left to other cafts, parti
. A new system of geography: or, A general description of the world. Containing a particular and circumstantial account of all the countries, kingdoms, and states of Europe, Asia, Africa, and With the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects, the various vegetables, and minerals, found in different regions . gft them, and that the horror of(bedding blood would endanger every Gentoo ftate, andrender it a prey to the firft invader ; but that fo rich anddelightful a country might not want defenders, the pro-vince of war was, according to the Gentoo fyftcm ofreligion, left to other cafts, particularly the Ketterees,from which are taken their rajahs, kings, chiefs,andgenerals, who are born to the profeflion of arms. TheNayrs, Ralhboots, and others, are alio born warriors ;and thele being the men, who, by the conftitution of theirreligion, govern the ftate, it is the lefs wonderful thai:they commit thofe adls of injuftice and violence whichgenerally accompany the fword, and ftiews how a religionthat brcaihes noiiiing but humanitv, mildncls, and uni-verfal charity, producei fuch tyrannical forms of govern-ment. ; It alfo appears very extraordinary, that while they are(b tenacious of the fiperftitious obfervanccs, they areliable to lofe their right of communion, not only for vo- luntarj e* ■ ii. Tndostam. ASIA, 191 luntary breaches of them, but for fuch as one would ima-gine extreme force or neceflity might juftify. Numbersot them, though in other refpetSts afraid of death, wouldfooner fufFer ir than violate any of thofe fundamentalpoints, on which their right ot communion depends,fuch as tailing of beef, drinking or eating out of thefame veflel with thole of another religion, which is adefilement never to be repaired. As for inftance, whenLlofdafs Vitiuldafs, a confiderable Banyan merchant, wason his palVage from Bombay to Surat in an Englilh fhip,he having made a provifion of water, in veflels of his own,under his own leal, fuch as might fervc for that fliortrun, bei
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