“I know not how to account for the story of the Pilgrim. I was asked about such a book by some Natives, when I was at Chunar: I think it must be a work of a former Roman Catholic Missionary, of whom I have heard, and who seems to have been a true Evangelist. I know the Christians of Bettiah have a book, written in the way of a Dialogue, in which the errors of the Brahmins are refuted. The Pilgrim, by Mrs. Sherwood, I translated in part, but Fitrut got so angry with it at last, he would not go on; and the copier, who is a Hindoo, said he should be obliged to give ten rupees in a feast to the Brahmins, to atone for his fault in writing such a book.... Fitrut is to-day employed on Isaiah lxiii. He has for some time been very much out of humour; a perfect comment on the apostle’s words, ‘hateful and hating.’ I let him fume, till his ill-humour is evaporated, when he becomes humble. He has been in to-day, to beg he may go with me to Calcutta. ‘In heaven or in earth, he has none but me to depend on; and he cannot be happy if I leave him behind.’ I told him I have no authority to take him down, and no boat-hire to give him. He said, ‘he would pay his own boat-hire, if you should not see fit to give it him, when he got to Calcutta.’ I told him, ‘he must not expect anything of the kind:’ and so he left me. The Roman Catholic Priest is over from Lucknow, and seems greatly altered from last year. He now professes to be desirous his people should be taught to read the Scriptures; and I hope we shall get something established under his inspection. It is true he has little appearance of serious religion; but he affects at least great indifference to the sign of the cross, &c., and may serve as a drawer of water for the temple-service. He has taken away a copy of Genesis for himself, which, he says, he will read and expound in church.” And in another letter to Mr. Brown, of somewhat later date, Mr. C. observes:--