13. Notes on Father Monserrate’s Mongolicae Legationis 
ommentarius 
By H. Brveripees, 
And the Surat Incident 
Translated from the Portuguese by R. G. Wutreway. 
Edited and Annotated by the Ruv. H. Hosrey, S.J. 
P. 517n. 2.—The MSS. referred to by Emerson Tennent 
are in the Students’ Room in the British Museum and 
are numbered Additional 20,861 to 20,900. I got out the 
first volume, viz., 20,861, but it was all in Portuguese, and, 
; a 
deal about Malacca and Cochin, and that there were at least 
two references to Equebar (Akbar). The first volume, 
Add. 20 ,861, begins with the year 1580 and ~ingen on to 1599. 
Some Portuguese scholar should look through the volumes.‘ 
n. 1.—According to the English tiacaleiion of the 
Sposa the quotation. comes from I Esdras, not I 
519n. 1.—Father Delaunoit’s suggestion that Agare- 
MUS comes from Hagar, the mother of Ishmael, is confirmed 
by the Paris edition of 1733 of Ducange. It is said there 
| % Agarenus: ‘‘Acareni, Saraceni, qui scilicet se existi- 
mant ortos ex Ismaelo, filio Agaris et Abrahami.’’? 
Psp a n. 3.—Dhafar is now known as Mirbat. ) 
Dh lle Memoirs, translation, II. &8n.; also the article 
l' des ar in Blackie’s Imperial Gazetteer, p. "937, and Reclus, 
Sie Antérieure, p- 897. Dhofar is properly Zt, ‘ victory’. 
A SE. Mees af iy apg Legationis Commentarius appeared in Memoirs 
( ne) » IIT, 513-704. 
(A. Bi ae ra few notes to Mr. H. Beveridge’s welcome annotations. 
2 collecti lating to India and once 
of the Marquis do’ PoLbak” Thies hould be she 
nel n of the quis d 
that Pomp the Portuguese irs * the t is well i t 
Goa to 4, al ordered escape doe 1 and esque here “of 
t © sent to Por ene and it i is edly likely that copies se 
Porty PePers were made at the time at Goa. How is it possible ioe 
e allowed this offic ial correspondence to fall into — han 
. Chey the Vulgate differs from the Church of England ver .. = 
“nd 20 for Salmus 82, v. 7, for the form Agareni, and 1 Par. ok wi 
Agarene fo, Pie, Agar ret. Manrique, the Spaniard, uses 
