372 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
about the book of Monserrate which he quoted: ‘In an 
autograph MS. of the author in my possession. The Padre 
wrote about the year 1590, in the prison of Senna in Arabia.” 
And I had to remark, what I have to remark also on the new 
passage quoted above, that there is no parallel passage in the 
MS. of Mongolicae Legationis Commentarius which I have edited. 
Wilford said again (Asiatick Researches, 1X, 1807, p. 230 n. 1): 
“The original MSS. of Monserrate’s travels is in my posses- 
sion,”’ where the singular verh seemed to show that by ‘ MSS.’ 
he meant ‘ MS.’ 
In the new passage now found Wilford gives the title 
of the book as De legatione Mongolica. lt is the only time 
that he does so. He adds that the passage he quotes is in the 
first volume of Monserrate’s work. This shows that he had at 
least two volumes of Monserrate’s in kis possession, both o 
which seem to have been entitled De legatione Mongolica. 
Now, in his preface to the MS. edited by me, Monserrate 
refers to four volumes written by himself. One volume con- 
tained the history of the first Jesuit Mission to Akbar’s Court; 

that it was fair-written in prison at Senaa in Arabia in 1590, be- 
tween October 21 and December 11. Yet, it too became 
geographical notes in Wilford’s first MS. volume had already 
been omitted from my MS. and east into a separate volume. 
It follows that Wilford’s two volumes represent an earlier 
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