Note 106 — IV. CONCERNING INDIA THE LESS.[71]

I need scarcely say that by Saracens he means Mahomedans, just as these were called Moors by our people in India in the last century, and by some classes of Europeans perhaps to our own day. So also the Prayer-book, in the collect for Good Friday, speaks of “Jews, Turks, infidels, and heretics.”