Note 154 — Chapter XVII · BATTICALOA

For the benefit of any Southron who may not recognise the quotation, I may explain that it refers to a Scotch minister’s exposition of the character of Satan, and how appropriately he was named. ‘For, my brethren, if you take one letter from his name, you find evil—he is the father of evil; and if you take away a second, you find vile; and take yet another, and there remains ill; so that he is just an ill, vile, evil devil.’