Vol. VIII, No. 5.] Fr. A. Monserrate’s Account of Akbar. 195 
[N.S.] 
Nam sabe ler, nem, escreuer, mas he mui curioso, E sempre 
tem homés letrados - apar dessi, a quem manda,/ 4 isputem 
: : ; : : Cy Wire e 
entressi - de diuersas materias, E cotem diuersas historias. / 
quer q lhe sejam relatadas. Em casos graues, manda, lancar, 
os facinorosos, ao pee dos ali-/fantes, ou por em caluétes, 4 sam 
tis aguieiros - agudos, em q 0s espetam. Aos ladroes formiguei- 
ros mida/ cortar a mad sem remissad. Aos rraptores adulter- 
os, manda degolar, ou emforcar, Outras culpas me-/nores E mais 
populares - manda castigar cO assoutes. 
| First: Vedor e Regedor. 
2 This story is told somewhat more fully in Mong. Leg. Comm., 
fol. 113b.4-114a.4. It will be found translated in Noer’s Akbar (transl.), 
II, pp. 56-58. 
$ On Akbar’s partiality for books, ef. Ain, I, 103. 
4 Caluetes. Cf. YuuE-Burnetit’s Hobson-Jobson, 8. V- Caluete. 
The word in derived from the Malayal. Kaluekki (pron... ettt): the 
punishment of impalement. 
5 Ladroes formigueiros are those who steal petty things. —‘‘ Fures, 
ut plurimum, vapulant, aut dextris plectunt.”’ Monj. Leg. ’ 
fol. 114 a. 4. —‘* If a man or woman steal, cut off their hands in retri- 
ution for that which they have committed: this is an exemplary 
punishment by God, and God is mighty and wise.”’ —Koran, Sura 5, 
verse 42. 

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