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The Claudians Chapter 3 Indian mission

Buchanan goes to India as a missionary. He finds a good wife, becomes depressed when she dies and lapses again from the life of virtue. He leaves Calcutta to travel overland to Goa. En route, at Juggernaut, he sees men and women sacrificing their lives to what he sees as pagan deities. In Goa he sees the horrors of the Portuguese inquisition. Both experiences encourage his missionary zeal. Because of this, and because of his poor health, he decides to return to England and campaign for the EIC to undertake missionary activity.

Reverend John Newton -

Crown Court Church, Covent Garden -

Storm in the South Atlantic -

Claudius Buchanan travelled on elephants -

Garden Reach, Calcutta -

Buchanan at Queen’s College, Cambridge -

St Mary Woolnoth Church -

Press ganged -

Newton slave ship -

William Wilberforce abolitionist -

The Sims -

Busbridge East Indiaman -