24- Father A. Monserrate, S.J., on Salsete, Chorio, 
Divar, and the Molucas (1579) 
Edited and translated by the Rev. H. Hosten, S.J. 
an being seat cr irreleva nt to those studies, deserves a 
permanent home elsewhere. 
The relation is neither signed nor dated; luckily, the 
writing and the similarities between the account on the 
Thomas Christians and a letter dealing with the same subject 
and written by Father Antonio Monserrate, S.J., (Cochin, 
12th January, 1579), of which I have a photographic facsimile, 
shows unmistakably that the author of the anonymous rela- 
tion is Father Monserrate, and that the date is the same, to 
within a few days. It is an autograph, therefore. The letter 
from Cochin was addressed to the Very Rev. Father Everard 
Mercurian, the General of the Society of Jesus in Rome. 
The relation, Informacion de los X’pianos de S. Thome, is like- 
wise addressed to the General. The endorsement, in the 
author’s writing, at the end of the document is: “ Informa- 
zt concerning some Christianities of India. To be seen by 
our Father General.” ie 
a cher Monserrate is the author of Mongolicae Legationis 
Commentarius (1590-91), which we published for the Asiatic 
ied of Bengal,” and of a Relagtio do Equebar (1582), which 

! in 1921 (July in 1922 Ss 
Herald of India (3 Portuguese Church 
I have published in The Catholic 
Street, Calcutta), tentative 
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new light on the question of the traditional apostolate a raged 
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