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Then he describes Qandahar, and says that the king wittily 

 called this city the royal courtesan, because she admitted some- 

 times the Persian, sometimes the Great Mogul. At the time 

 the Father was writing, Qandahar belonged to Persia. 



Father Botelho describes Dara Shikoh as being a great 

 friend of the Fathers : " Xobis summa familiaritate conjunc- 

 tum.' 9 Aurangzeb he calls " fervidus juvenis et martialis 

 animi." But he wrongly states that Dara Shikoh w T as taken 

 oft by poison. 



Speaking of the Catholic College of Agra, he writes : 

 " Nostrum Agrense Collegium erexit P. Antonius de 

 Andrade ] geminis in altum pergulis in litterae Z speciem. 

 Egoque dum visitatoris munus obirem duo addidi cubicula 

 aulamque satis amplam quo aliquos in nos benevolos viros 

 sospitio exciperemus, in quod opus Ollandi Anglique septin- 

 " gentos aureos liberaliter erogarunt 



" Armenius quoque institor praedives duo supra decern 

 millia aureorum quondam obtulit, queis magnificum extructum 

 fuerat templum, quod funditus eversum est ea qua dieam 

 occasione. Aegre ferebant Cassises, vehementerque angeban- 

 tur quod plurimi adeo Christiani fluxe in templum convenirent, 

 ingentemque moverunt tumultum prae nimia multitudine ; 

 erant enim, ut dixi, IX" 2 ex Bengala captivorum millia, et ad 

 templi ingressum talem excitabant strepitum ut in seditionem 

 aliquando cresceret.' ' 



The Mullahs complained, and the King ordered that the 

 Church should be destroyed, and if 'Asaf Khan had not 

 interfered, the Fathers would have been put in chains and 

 expelled. They had to remain in retirement for a time. 

 Afterwards, a small house was allowed them. 8 



I The College was built, I believe, in 1621. 



Anthony de Andrade : born at Oleyros, Province of Beyra in 1580; 

 entered the Society at Coimbra on Dec. 15, 1596; was sent to Lisbon 

 in 1597; embarked for India in 1600; made his studies at Goa : 

 Rector of the College of Goa; sent as superior to Mogor, where he was 

 from 1621 ; left Delhi for Thibet [16 May ?] 1624, arrived at Tsaparang 

 in Guge, and on his return to Agra dated his first account of Cathay ; 

 8 Nov. 1624. Leaving Agra again for Thibet on June 17. 1625, he 

 reached the first Thibetan city on August 28, 1625. On April 12,1626, 

 Easter-day, the King of Tsaparang himself laid the first stone of a 

 1 hurch to be dedicated to Our Lady of Hope. One of de Andrade' 

 letters is dated : Chaparangue, at the Court of the King of Great 

 Thibet, August 15, 1626. On his return to Goa, he became Provincial 

 and Rector for the second time of the College. He died at Goa from 

 poisoning, March 19, 1634. 



* Should it not be IV ? Father Francis Corsi, S.J., in a letter 

 from Agra (October 5, 1633) announces that 4,000 prisoners have arrived 

 at Agra from Htigli in July 1633. 



3 Father Joseph de Castro writes from Agra (April 16,1637) that, 

 after having been for more than a year banished from their College, 

 they were allowed through 'Asaf Khan to return to their College on the 

 day of the Immaculate Conception [1636 ?]. Their Church at Lahore 



