188 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [May, 1912. 
guese or Spanish a, at his disposal. The extracts in his. 
work are much shor 
Fr. Pierre du pone s.J., made copious extracts from 
Peruschi’s [nformatione del Regno,..di Mogor. This is evident 
from the faulty spelling of the proper names in both. The 
whole of Chapter viii of Livre IIII, Seconde Partie de l’ Histoire 
des choses plus memorables advenues tant ez Indes Orientales ... ., 
Bovrdeavs, Millanges, 1610, pp. 429-438, is thus based on 
Monserrate’ s authority.” ( Latin edn. Coloni niz-Agrippine, 1615, 
II, Lib. aa ° VIII, pp. 492-501.) 
Pur > His Pilgrimage will be found to contain several 
says Potente pose the Relacam quoted through Peruschi or du 
Jarric.® 
Father Francis de Sousa’s account of the first Jesuit 
Mission to Mogor* has little in common with Peruschi’s Infor- 
matione. Ifhe had a copy of Monserrate’s Relacam, he did not 
make much use of it.6 Though he wrote at Goa, it would seem, 
too, that he did not utilize Monserrate’s MS. Mongolice Legationis 
Commentarius. His account of Monserrate’s and Aquaviva’s 
ourney from Surat to Fathpir in 1580 is not taken from it, 
bat pachkhiy from letters written . the time by Monserrate 
and preserved in ‘‘Nossa Secretaria de Goa.’’ He quotes, 
e.g., @ MS. History of Padre Sebastias Goncalves.® (Cf. Or. 
Cong. , Vol. I, Introd.). 
as 
Mongolice Legationis Commentarius, it was none the less, in 
default of the latter, a most important document, and it is 
_ sufficiently valuable to justify us in ‘publishing it. It 


ua conversione alla nostra | santa Fede. | Cauaia dalla relatione, e da 
moltt particolarit | hauuti "eon eas parts /../../ In Bivécia, / Appresso: 
Pietro Maria Marchetti, 1597. /—I have also the Latin translation : 
istorica Relati ; iz, 16 The 
’ Ww. d 
Cf. Purchas his Pilgrimage, London, 1625-26, Pt. IV BEV, 
Ch. 6, § 3, p. 512. In J. Tatpoys WuHEELER’s Early Travels in India, 
Caleutta, i864, nee pp. 14-24. 
Conquistado, Lisboa, MDCOX, Vol. II, €.1, D.2. 
§§ 2-46, 58-63." 
: Cf. ibid. § 63. 
5 Only the first 5 books of Pt. I of Padre Sebastias Gongalvez’ 
The where- 
tory are in the private Royal Library of Lisbon 2 
abonts 6) ity rest are not known. Cf. Monwmenta etic Madrid,. 
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