too 8 ঐতিহাসিক চিত্ৰ । হইয়া উঠে। বাৰ্ণিয়ার সাহেব ইহাদের অমানুষিক অত্যাচারকাহিনী TDD DBDDSDBD BBB BBB DDDS S BDBDD BBBDLD yBD ক্ৰোধে ও ঘূণায় শরীর রোমাঞ্চিত হইয়া উঠে । ফিরিঙ্গিরা জাতিতে খৃষ্টান হষ্টলেও ইতাদের আচার ব্যবহার বর্বরের তুল্য ছিল । আমরা এই বিষয়ে বাৰ্ণিয়ার সাহেবের একস্থানের উক্তি উদ্ধৃত করিয়া আমাদের মন্তব্য সমর্থনা করিতেছি । তিনি একস্থানে নিম্নলিখিত ভয়াবহ বিবরণ দিয়াছেন । Rakon , had been the refugee of all the runaway Portuguese from (ioa, Cochi , \lalacca and other places which they had in the lidic's as well as of their slaves and of the Europeans. They consisted of such as had abandoned their monast ("rics ; had been twice or thrice marrie" dl ; murde ers and the " ukes. The king of Rakon kept them as a guard of his frontier against the Moghs, in the port called Chategon, which he had taken from Bengal; giving them lands and liberty to live as they pleased. Their usual trade was robbery and piracy; they not only scoured the seacoasts, but entered the rivers, especially the Ganges, and often penetrating forty or fifty league's up the country, surprised and carried away whole towns and villag's of people, with great cruelty, and burning all which they could not carry away. They ran somed the old people; but the young ones they made rowers of and such Christians as they were themselves boasting that they made more converts in one year than the missionaries, through the Indies, did in ten. ごF平*ー শ্ৰীমুখবিন্দু সেনগুপ্ত । sh See Modern Universal History Vol. vi.
