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Khan, London, 1835, p. 318, states that Akbar began the siege of 
Surat on 19th Jan. 1573, and marched back to Ahmadabad on 6th 
Se 1573. Between these dates Cabral’s embassy must have taken 
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gues Asta, London, 1695, Vol. II, Pt. III, Ch. XI, 9, p. 323 (abridged 
from the Portuguese). Peruschi, du Jarric and Bartoli must be wrong. 
when speaking of an embassy of Cabral’s in March 1578. In March 1578, 
Father Julian Pereira arrived at Fathpir. 
1 Peruschi says (p. 29) that these two Jesuits had come from Europe 
in 1570, but one of them was called Antonio Vaz (Oriente C istado , 
It. Cong, I, D. II, § 44), and no such name appears in Franco’s 
Synopsis Annal. Soc. Jesu in Lusit. about that time. 
