xx Annual Report. [February, 1912. 
inscription, is said to be Nawwara top, a sort of naval 
employed in the flotilla of boats ; (2) Inscribed Field Piece is of 
iron, bearing an inscription four or five lines in very bad 
four Persian letters without any diacritical marks: (7) The 
Brass Gun of Gadadharasimha was transferred by the Asiatic 
Society of Bengal in 1867 to the Industrial Section of the 
Indian Museum, bearing two inscriptions on its barrel, one in 
e same writer contributes a paper on ‘‘ the Evidence of 
the Faridpore grants,” in which he offers some critical notes 
on four copper-plate inscriptions which are pronounced to be 
reference to the tunnel is dated 30 years later; W. Finch, who 
was in Delhi in 1611, proceeds thus: ‘‘From the Monument 
is said to be a way underground to Dely Castle.’’ By ‘‘ Dely 
Castle ’’ he certainly means Old Delhi. It will be observed 
that the earliest native record relating to these tunnels is in 
the Ain-i- Akbari only. 
me writer, in a paper on ‘ Frey Joaoda Cruz, 0.S.A. 
( + 1638),”’ describes the life of the Portuguese Friar, who was 
wounded by the Moors during the siege of Hugli (Ugolim) in 
A.D. 1632, and was taken as a prisoner at Agra. 
Revs. L. Besse, S.J., and H. Hosten, 8.J., have thrown a 
good deal of light on the histories of Bengal and Burma by 
compiling a descriptive list of Portuguese Jesuit Missionaries in 
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F.AS.B., Secretary, Board of Examiners, in a very useful 
article on ‘ Some Notes on Urdu Grammar,’’ has dealt briefly 
with some points of Urdu grammar, which appear to have 
