'Sir,' said the reverend gentleman, 'the sooner the Church of Tanjore is broken up the better.

You can form no notion of the worthlessness of the native Christians there.' I could not dispute this point with him; but neither could I help thinking, though I was too polite to say so, that it was hardly worth the while of so many good men to come fifteen thousand miles over sea and land in order to make proselytes, who, their very instructors being judges, were more children of hell than before." Unfortunately Macaulay's stay on the Neilgherries coincided with the monsoon.

"The rain streamed down in floods.

It was very seldom that I could see a hundred yards in front of me.

During a month together I did not get two hours' walking." He began to be bored, for the first and last time in his life; while his companions, who had not his resources, were ready to hang themselves for very dulness.