Vol. VIII, No. 5.] Fr. A. Monserrate’s Account of Akbar. 187 
[V.S. 
in 1880: ‘* An excellent report (anonymous) dated from Goa, 
Nov. 26, 1582, is in my hands. It describes the state of 
things at Akbar’s Cou rt, and is a copy from the Spanish 
Archives obtained by the good offices of Don Pascual de 
Guayangos.’”’ ! 
Count von Noer’s copy may still be in existence. That of 
oy Spanish Archives appears to have been lost. ‘‘ When | was 
t Madrid,” writes Sir Clements R. Markham, ‘Don Pascual de 
daiosibes the personal appearance and habi b t 
was left at the Asiatic Society, before Mr eos x’s time, and 
was misl Don Pascual a also mislaid the original, so 
that the loss is irremediable 
rom the quotations ma a by Count von Noer regarding 
the Kabul campaign, I concluded in 1907 that the ‘‘ excellent 
anonymous report ’’’ was the work of Monserrate. ag point 
is now placed beyond doubt.* 
Markham was mistaken, if he thought that copies of the 
MS. which he obtained from the Spanish Archives had never 
been utilized before. We find Monserrate’s Relagam quoted in 
a number of ancient works; but, it is probably due to the 
fact that the copies were not signed t = the name of the 
author See unmentioned and unkno 
s I know, the first who ican himaelf of the docu- 
ment which. we now publish was Padre Gio. Battista Peruschi, 
J.4 He reproduces it in extenso, but disposes the materials 
somewhat differently. His copy must, however, have been 
more elaborate than mine. It contains occasionally more 
detailed information, eg could have come from Mogor only, 
the only sources mentior d (cf. Sedan p. 5) being letters of 
Mogor, dated 1582 and ‘ ‘1592? ? (1595 2}. 
Father Luis de Guzman, s.J., was the next is or use 
of Monserrate’s Relagam, and it will be evident, examina- 
tion, that he did not translate Fomseli. but had se thie's Tate: 
el b ae tte 8. Beveridge, Caioutte., Thacker, 1890, Vol. I, 
pp. ooh 2. ma — s Kaiser Akbar had appeared in 1880 or 1881. 
oma S. Van Li theca heme ar: An Eastern 
a from the Dutch by M. M. With notes and an 
‘esis oie of Akbar by Clements R. Markham, London, Allen, 
ie 
von Norn, Kaiser Akbar (1980), eb Il, pp. 11-12, 77-78, 
182; ne. Also: Jesuit Missions ror Akbar, D. 
Maclagan, arn oer 1896, p. 47, and m te sit Missionaries 
India a scriptions on ‘their tombs, fi fae (1580-1803), Caleutte,, 
Catholic Orphan Press, a rir aaa Church Street, 1907, p 
