Volume 1

A voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, undertaken in the years 1789 and 1790. Containing an account of the Sechelles Islands and Trincomale ... To which is added, a voyage in the Red Sea. Including a description of Mocha, and of the trade of the Arabs of Yemen ... / Tr. from the French of L. de Grandpré.

  • Louis de Grandpré
Date:
1803
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Credit: A voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, undertaken in the years 1789 and 1790. Containing an account of the Sechelles Islands and Trincomale ... To which is added, a voyage in the Red Sea. Including a description of Mocha, and of the trade of the Arabs of Yemen ... / Tr. from the French of L. de Grandpré. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^lissiona nés. The j)i*eference which the metropolitan bishop of Goa, wlio is himself a Porta- guese, thus exclusively shows to the priests of eveiy description who are connected with his own countrymen, lias had the cffeet of introducing into the religious rites of that mission ail the mummery of the indian idolatry. It is only among the french Jesuits, and in the parochial church of Pondicherry, that the catholic religion is practised with the décorum due to it ; the other churches exhibit only a species of burlesque entertainments, This bas perha])s arisen from an idea of making religious impressions upon the Indians through the medium of external objects; but 1 did not observe that the Jesuits, who hâve not departed from the simplicity and decency observed in the european worship, are less successful in making prosélytes, than those who hâve most eagerly given into these extravagances. I' happened to be at Madras in passion- week, and was disgusted at seeing the ma- jestic and awful solemnities prescribed on