However, Tuljajee called Swartz "_his padre_," and gave him free entrance to his fort at Tanjore, where his arguments made a wide impression, and still more his example.

"Padre," said a young Nabob, "we always regarded you Europeans as ungodly men, who knew not the use of prayers, till you came among us." He continued to go backwards and forwards between Trichinopoly and Tanjore, in both which places he began to gather catechumens round him.
Unfortunately his Protestant principles brought him into collision with the Roman Catholics at the former place.

A young Hindoo, of good birth, seems to have had one of those remarkable natures that cannot rest without truth.

He had for seven years wandered to all the most famous pagodas and most sacred rivers, seeking rest for his soul, but in vain.
Some Roman Catholics had given him a little brass crucifix, which he used to set up before him as he prayed; but he had learnt little more of them, and he was mournfully gazing at "the pagodas of Sirengam" (in his own words), and thinking, "What is all this?
what can it avail ?" when some of Swartz's catechists began to speak.

"Will this be better than what I have found ?" he said to himself.