and absolutely refused to divulge anything that would bring his brethren into trouble.  Two sisters of his were also brought out to this Auto, and displayed equal faith.  They would confess Christ, they said, and suffer with their brother, whom they revered as a wise and holy man.  They were all tied to stakes on the quemadero, a piece of pavement, without the walls of the city, devoted to the single use of burning human victims.  Sometimes this quemadero [Footnote:  Llorente, the historian of the Spanish Inquisition, says, “So many persons were to be put to death by fire, the governor of Seville caused a permanent raised platform of masonry to be constructed outside the city, which has lasted to our time (until the French revolution) retaining its name of Quemadero, or burning-place, and at the four corners four large hollow stalutes of limestone, within which they used to place the impenitent alive, that they might die by slow fires.”] was a raised platform of stone, adorned with pillows or surrounded with statues, to distinguish and beautify the spot.  Just as the fire was lit, the gag, which had hitherto silenced Don Juan, was removed, and as the flames burst from the fagots, he said to his sisters, ‘Let us sing, Deus laudem meam ne tacueris.’  And they sang together, while burning, ’Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me:  they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.’  Thus they died in the faith of Christ, and of his holy gospel.”

APPENDIX IV.

Inquisition of Goa, concluded.

The Inquisition of Goa continued its Autos for a century after the affair of Dellon.  In the summer of 1808, Dr. Claudius Buchanan visited that city, and had been unexpectedly invited by Joseph a Doloribus, second and most active inquisitor, to lodge with him during his visit.  Not without some surprise, Dr. Buchanan found himself, heretic, schismatic, and rebel as he was, politely entertained by so dread a personage.  Regarding his English visitor merely as a literary man, or professing to do so, Friar Joseph, himself well educated, seemed to enjoy his company, and was unreservedly communicative on every subject not pertaining to his own vocation.  When that subject was first introduced by an apparently incidental question, he did not hesitate to return the desired information, telling Dr. Buchanan that the establishment was nearly as extensive as in former times.  In the library of the chief inquisitor he saw a register containing the names of all the officers, who still were numerous.

On the second evening after his arrival, the doctor was surprised to see his host come from his apartment, clothed in black robes from head to foot, instead of white, the usual color of his order (Augustinian).  He said that he was going to sit on the tribunal of the holy office, and it transpired that, so far from his “august office” not occupying much of his time, he had to sit there three or four days every week.  After his return, in the evening, the doctor put Dellon’s book into his hand, asking him if he had ever seen it.  He had never seen it before, and, after reading aloud and slowly, “Relation de l’Inquisition de Goa,” began to peruse it with eagerness.