40 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. |N.S.., XVIII, 
1911 to February 1915, he worked at Bandura and the 
neighbouring mission at Golla. Had he lived, there is no doubt 
that Father Altenhofen would ultimately have published much 
useful work on the origin and customs of the villagers amongst 
whom he laboured; but this was not to be. For some time 
after the outbreak of the war, he was preserved from intern- 
ment by the intervention of friends who stood surety for him. 
When at last this was no longer permitted, and he was about to 
be sent to Ahmednagar, he fell seriously ill and after an opera- 
tion in the Mitford Hospical, Dacca, he died on November 23rd, 
1915. He is buried in the Catholic church at Tezgaon. Re- 
quiescat in pace ! 
APPENDIX I. 
“ Agour THE CaTHoLic MISSION AT HASHNABAD. ”’ 
(A prefatory note in one of the Mission Registers : 
written about 1880.) 
It is more than 300 years ago that some natives of different 
parts of Bengal were converted to the Roman Catholic Religion 
through the efforts of the Portuguese missionaries. 
Rev. Fr. Raphael! was the first priest who came to Hashna- 
bad, and establishing himself in various places, converted a 
good number of people to his religion at Noricul, now attached 
Furredpore, and thence he passed to Hashnabad, Gollah, 
Malikanda, Solepore, Ikrashi and Bandurah of the District of 
Dacea. Dos Mahomed Osman of Hashnabad, being enraged 




! As Father Hosten has pointed out to me, the Rev. Father Raphael 
here mentioned , is probably the Fray Raphael das Anjos who was 
Annuario da Archid de Goa, 1897, pp. 193 and 194 (quoted by Father 
Hosten in his notes to Archdeacon W. K. Firminger’s translation of Pére 
Barbier’s letter of 1723—Bengal : Past and Present, Oct.—Nov., 1910), the 
a 
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Rennell’s statement in 1765 that the church at Noricul was alreadv in 
ruins (vide supra, p. 14, ote), I am inclined to doubt this local tredition 
i i i a rom Nori- 
cul or of Father Raphael’s alleged connection with that place. 
"he towzi number in the Dacca collectorate office of the estate held 
by the Portuguese Mission of Hashnabad is No. 1288 Taluk Padrean : 
but no reference to Dost Muhammad can be found in the cellectorate 
papers regarding this estate. 
