Hi Dan, I was really disappointed with your response below. However, I compliment and salute you for your forthright honesty. You are a gentleman. It appears you quote what others parrot without the authors providing specific references and cross-checks. And I am surprised that this goes on in "historical journal articles" that you read / reviewed / edited. If you think I was too exacting on you and others, perhaps you can have the consolation that this is the British training that I received studying London. I am not blaming the British system; but rather I am praising them and trying to pass it on. Regards, GL ------------ DAN DRISCOLL I'm not able to come up with citations. Having gone through several thousands of lines about the early colonial period I simply had an intuitive feeling that even Xavier himself had ... I even have a vague feeling that I read somewhere that he did make a recommend of that sort .... you have, perhaps quite rightly 'hoisted me on my own petard'.
