19. Father A. Monserrate’s Account of Akbar 
(26th Nov. 1582). 
Translated and Edited by Rev. H. Hostsn, 8.J. 
Father Anthony Monserrate was Blessed Rudolph Aquavi- 
to the Emperor’s second son, Prince Murad. From beginning 
to end the campaign was a triumphal march. Mirza Muham- 
mad Hakim kept beating a retreat before his brother, and no 
serious resistance was anywhere encountered. When r 
appeared before Kabul, it was empty. Muhammad Hakim had 
absconded in the mountains. The expedition lasted till the 
end of 1581, when Akbar was back at Fathpur and ordered 
the Nau-roz (March of 1582)” to be celebrated with unpre- 
cedented splendour. About April 1582, Akbar prepared to 
ambassador should wait till the next year. Shortly after, it 
was rumoured that Akbar had been killed, and the ambassador 
returned to Fathpir.’ In the beginning of 1583, Bl. Rudolph 
Aquaviva, the only Jesuit left at Fathpir, was recalled to Goa 
by his superiors, because the main object of the Mission, Akbar’s 
conversion, had long appeared to be a hopeless task. 

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1583, as Dowson has it) was celebrated by a festival of 18 days’ duration. 
Cf. D. Barto, 8.J. Memorie Istoriche, Torino, 1847, Lib. v, 
