For Asiatic Mohammedanism see Sleeman's Recollections, II., 164, and compare Tennent's Christianity in Ceylon, p. 330, and Max Müller's Chips from a German Workshop, II., 351. The London Spectator, in April, 1869, stated that "Mohammedanism gains thousands of converts every year," and thus described the activity of its organization, the statement being condensed in the Boston Journal: "Of all these societies, the largest, the most powerful, the most widely diffused, is the Mohammedan population. Everywhere it has towns, villages, temples, places within which no infidel foot ever is or can be set. Its missionaries wander everywhere, keeping up the flame of Islam,--the hope that the day is coming, is at hand, when the white curs shall pass away, and the splendid throne which Timour won for the faithful shall again be theirs. They have their own papers, their own messengers, their own mail carriers, and they trust no other. Repeatedly, before the telegraph was established, their agents outstripped the fastest couriers the government could employ. The government express was carried by Mussulmans, who allowed the private messengers to get on a few hours ahead. Every dervish, moollah, or missionary, is a secret agent. This organization, which has always existed, has of late been drawn closer, partly as the result of their great mutiny, which taught the priests their hold over the soldiery, partly by the expiration of the 'century of expiation,' and partly by the marvelous revival of the Puritan element in Mohammedanism itself." [K] See Southey's Wesley, chap. III. Report of Joint Delegation of the Society of Friends, 1869. Hedge's Primeval World of Hebrew Tradition, p. 83. Coffin's New Way Round the World, pp. 270, 308, 361. Colden's History of the Five Indian Nations (dedication). He says also, "We have reason to be ashamed that those infidels, by our conversation and neighborhood, are become worse than they were before they knew us." It appears from this book (as from other witnesses), that one of the worst crimes now practiced by the Indians has sprung up since that day, being apparently stimulated by the brutalities practiced by whites towards Indian women. Colden says, "I have been assured that there is not an instance of their offering the least violence to the chastity of any woman that was their captive" (Vol. I., p. 9, 3d ed.). Compare Parkman's Pontiac, II., 236. [L] "Cum ea quæ Romani polluerant fornicatione, nunc mundent barbari castitate."--_Salvian de Gubern. Dei._ ed. 1623, p. 254, quoted in Gilly's Vigilantius, p. 360.