214 Portuguese Inscriptions from Mombassa. [Dec. 



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1 . Alas ! In the city of Dihli a moon set which had risen in Kabul. 



2. This fresh plant of the flower-bed of beauty and comeliness left this world 

 and vanished altogether. 



3. The chronogram of the death of this rose camo from the unseen world, ' The 

 wind scattered that rose of Murad's stem.' 



The death of Abul Fazail, son of Sayyid Murad, (took place) in 968 

 [A. D. 1560-61]. 



VIII. 



From the courtyard of Amir Khusrau's Tomb. 1 ft. by 5 in, 



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The death of the pardoned Salimah Sultan, daughter of the Amir Shihab 

 of Jam, (took place) on the 5th Muharram, 968 [26th September, 1569]. 



Amir Shihab was governor of Dihli in the beginning of Akbar's reign. 

 His wife, JBaba A'gha was related to Akbar's mother. For his biography, 

 vide my A'in Translation, Vol. I., p. 332. 



Letters were read — 



1. From the Asst. Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign 

 Dept., forwarding the following copy of a paper by Dr. da Cunha of the 

 Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, relating to some Portuguese 

 Inscriptions which were discovered on the walls of the Fort of Mombassa , 

 by Major C. B. Euan Smith, C. S. I., late Offg. Political Agent at Zan- 

 zibar. 



(Copy.) 

 Translation oftlie Inscription, JVo. I. 



In the reign of the King d' Phelipe II., Antonio de Sousa Godinho 

 was by his order commanded to place this inscription on the new fortress 

 of the island of Mornbaca in the month of April of 1593, at the time when 

 Mathias d'Alboquerque was Viceroy of India. Being Matheus Mendes de 

 Vasconcillor Chief Captain of the Coast of the Sea (Melindi), this fortress 

 was commanded to be built with the assistance of the Engineer from 

 India, Master Joao Bautista Cairato, served by masons Manoel de Sousa and 

 Ascanio Asis Bodrigues. 



Remarks. — The above inscription has been engraven in a very con- 

 fused style. Some words are not only shortened into one letter or two or 



