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The Dutch are like the Hindus in their great tolerance.

— Claude Alvares

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It is perhaps easier now to understand the opinion of the traveller, Robert Orme, who, though often critical. was forced to admit that “the arts which furnish the conveniences of life have been carried by the Indians to a pitch far beyond which is necessary to supply the wants of a climate which knows so few”.

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