350 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVITI, 
we published for the same Society.’ We need not therefore 
enlarge on his career or on his merits. Those who have read 
his writings on Akbar will find him not less painstaking in 
Thomas Christians is as valuable as all his other writings. 
Father Monserrate’s writing in this document is a very 
microscopic one. The whole Spanish text which we a 
here fits in 2§ of his pages (23 centim. x 153 centim.); vet. 
wrote so clearly that, in spite of my very limited shawl 
of Spanish, I have had but little difficulty in deciphering 
him ealerebis? Evén the more diminutive writing added 
between the lines or running down the margins yields its 
mysteries to the unaided eye. 
For want of books I cannot ee annotate this bin oy ot 
as fully as I might have wished. I trust, however, that Mon 
serrate’s description of customs will "be found on the whole 
fairly accurate. Itis the more valuable as it is one of the earli- 
est of its kind for Goa and its neighbourhood ; and we cannot 
but regret again that three MS. volumes by Monserrate are lost 
or in hiding, viz. his book on the geography, natural history, 
customs and antiquities of India, his similar volume on Arabia, 
and his account of his captivity i in Arabia 
I publish the Spanish text as I find it, with the exception 
that I punctuate it more copiously, use more capitals, and 
divide it into paragraphs. 
Darjeeling, 8t. Joseph’s College, 
18th June, 1922. 



We have translated and published the whole of that important 
volume on the first Jesuit Mission at Akbar’s Court (1580-1583) in ae 
Catholic Herald of India, a weekly paper, a in 1920-21. 
mary! eeerehink it in book-form, because we hav. _ here the — 
the ns to annotate it as it deserves, and bank a large n 
of su subsidiary materials of the same period ought to re agora pail 
i "Oh J. and Proc. A.S.B., 1912, pp. 185-221 ; title : ‘<‘ Father A. 
Monserrate’s prcarte of Akbar (26th Nov. , 1582).” 

