158 ~ Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [April, 1913. 
existence of the following work: ‘‘The Pastors’ Garden, com- 
posed in the Bramana tongue by Father Miguel de Almeida, of 
the Society of Jesus, a native of Gouvea. With permission of 
the Holy Inquisition and the Ordinary. Printed at Goa in St. 
Paul’s College of the Society of Jesus. Year 1658.”’ 4°.! 
It is very probable that this was not the only book printed 
at Goa in this language.” 
OA.—Tue Prorsssep Hous. - ‘‘BRACMANICO-MARASTA.” 
—It is clear that, for a time at least, there existed a press in the 
Professed House ; for we find that a work by Fr. Stephen de la 
oix was printed there in 1634. It consists of two folio 
volumes, and is in ‘‘ Brahmanico-Marasta ”’ verse, this language 
being the dogmatic one used by the litterati 
his Father was one of the chief pillars of that Mission. 
Born at St. Pierre du Bosguérard (Eure) in 1579, he became a 
Jesuit in 1599 and went to India in 1602. He studied at Goa, 
he composed many books, among others a Poem of the Passion, 
which the Christians sang every Friday of Lent in the Church of 
1 SoMMERVoGEL, Op. cit., t. I, col. 189. ‘Jardim de Pastores, 
composto em lingua Bramana pello Padre Miguel de Almeida da Com- 
panhia de Jesus, natural deGouvea. Com licenea da Sancta Inquisigao @ 
Ordinario. Impresso no Collegio de Sam Paul de Goa da Companhia de 
Tesus. Anno 1658.”’ 
? [From what has been said above of Fr. de Almeida under 
‘ Books in Konkani,’’ it is evident that ‘‘ Bramana’’ here means Kon- 
ant. 
5 Discursos sobre a vida do Apostolo Sam Pedro. Compostos em 
versos em lingoa bramana marasta. -Empressos em ; asa Professa 
de Jesus i 
th 
that of the College; the necessary material and the workmen were per- 
aps removed to the Professed House to facilitate for the author the cor- 
rection of the proofsheets. {There is a copy in the National Library, 
Lisbo . ° - bs . B ib 2 m 
ie INTO D ; o. Port.; ILVA, Y 
t.—We suggest that this life of St. Peter might bo a translation of @ 
Portuguese text o : 
hod 
. Peter. 
: ; of Fr, de la Croix: <‘* Entre les autres grands person- 
nages que je trouvai en la maison d i 
Salsete, 1621], j’ 
. : 0 
mieux que ceux mémes du pays, et avait imprimé plusieurs livres en l’une 
ot en l’autre qui sont estimés de tous; ot je vis un fort beau podme de la 
