442 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1913. 
but to the King of Guouro”? [Gaur]. Seizing his lands would 
put an end to ‘‘Akbar’s”’ i 
Bengal.' It was not advisable either that the treasures of the — 
King of Chandecao, a man de pouco poder e de gente pusillanime, 
should be let fall into Akbar’s hands? 
In a letter of Bishop Dom Pedro to Dom Jeronymo de 
Azevedo, Viceroy of Goa (Lisbon, 15 March 1613), there is 
t. Beveridge could find no mention of Chandecan in the 
old maps. I find it referred to as ‘‘Ile de Chandecan’’ in a 
n 
¢ao de documentos ineditos, Tom. VII, 1¢ Serie, Tom. [, 
Lisbon, 1880, p. : 
3 a 
354, 
Cf. ibid., Tom. VIII, 14 Serie, Tom. II, Lisbon, 1884, p. 392. 
