Under ordinary circumstances this would have been easy enough, for the Hindoos of the lower castes have no delicacy on these subjects.

The husband would gladly have taken a few rupees, and walked away; but the persecutors of my servant interfered, and insisted that he should be brought to trial in order that they might have the pleasure of smearing him with filth, giving him a flogging, beating kettles before him, and carrying him round on an ass with his face to the tail.
"As the matter could not be accommodated, I begged the Judge to try the case instantly; but the rabble insisted that the trial should not take place for some days.

I argued the matter with them very mildly, and told them that I must go next day, and that, if my servant were detained, guilty or innocent, he must lose his situation.

The gentle and reasoning tone of my expostulations only made them impudent.

They are, in truth, a race so accustomed to be trampled on by the strong that they always consider humanity as a sign of weakness.