In all these remarks, however, it is necessary to bear in mind that the Hindus comprise many races, and dwell in many different climates. Amongst some of the races, and particularly amongst the non-Aryan tribes, there is much drinking of alcoholic fluids, which with other of their races is almost unknown. Mountstuart Elphinstone says their most prominent vice is want of veracity. They do not even resent the imputation of falsehood. The same man would calmly answer to a doubt by saying, Why should I tell a lie?' who would shed blood for what he regarded as the slightest infringement of his honour. Hindus'are not ill fitted by nature for intrigue and cunning, when their situation calls forth those qualities. Patient, supple, and insinu ating, they penetrate the views of the persons with whom they have to deal Like all that are slow to actual conflict, they are very litigious, and much addicted to verbal altercation. The manner in which often,' Dr. Chevers writes at p. 451, a crowd of Bengalis fall upon a victim of their displeasure, and beat and tear him into pieces with sticks, fists, feet, hands, and any weapon which may happen to have been brought or caught up, until the body lies in the midst of them a mere bloody, featureless, disjointed, broken mass, is scarcely characteristic of the reputed mildness of the national character.'—
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