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[N.S.] 



Q 



Governor in 



Bengal, presumably at Patna, between 1627 and 1633.* We 

 can now identify him as, indeed, a great Christian hero, and we 

 hope that, when we shall have collected all the scattered refer- 

 ences to him, much of Father Botelho's high-sounding encomium 

 will be found justified. 



The whole account of Mirza Zu-1 Qarnin's confession of 

 the faith, at the age of eleven or twelve, can be read in du Jarric 

 and Guerreiro. 3 It is most pathetic and carries us back to the 

 days of the early martyrs. 



Of. S. Noti, S.J., Joseph Tieff entailer, S.J., a forgotten Geographer 

 of India, Bombay, * Nirnaya-Sagar ' Press, 1906, p. 8. His name does 

 not appear in Mesroub J. Seth's History of the Armenians in India, 

 Calcutta, 1895. 



* From MSS. letters of Fr. J. de Castro, S.J., in the writer's 

 possession. 



3 Cf. Troisiesme partie de V Histoire des choses . . . .advenues .... 



ez Indes Orientales 1614, pp. 107—111; p. 115. The narrative is 



found in Fr. Fern. Guerreiro's Rela^ao for 1606 and 1607, Lisboa, 

 MDCIX, Pedro Crasbeeck, pp. 152—155. 



