exxxvili Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [Dec., 
From another source we learn that between September and a 
_ November 26, 1582, Monserrate made a summary of the chief 
topics regarding Akbar, a kind of character-sketch. This 
Relacam 
y, to Abyssinia. After 
touching at Mascat, he and his companion, Father Peter Paez, — 
were intercepted by the Arabs near ‘‘ Dofar,’’ and sent to 
Eynan, where ‘King’? Omar kept them in honourable 
confinement. He ordered even that Monserrate’s books and 
writings should be restored and—a not unprecedented case of 
enlightenment in Eastern despots—granted him four months’ 
leisure to correct his writings and add to them what was still 
‘* Consequently, I returned to m writings, corrected and ¢ 
larged them, and freed them from erasures.’’ On December II, 
wrote his preface, dedicating his work to the Very Rev. Father 
Claudius Aquaviva, the uncle of his companion at Fathpur, 
blinds and deceives me, I am of opinion that it will not prove 
useless to the students of Geography and Antiquity, especially 
to those of Ours who apply themselves to the Classics, when 
they come across historical matters concerning India. : 
“In these writings—I say it without presumption—L 
‘ ght. If, in your wisdom, you judge that this double ob 
as been attained in my two-fold study, [ believe that i 
amply commend itself to you. Farewell.” : 
