90 G. A. Grierson — Bangali version of the Lord's Prayer. [May, 



Millius, in which was inserted a grammar of the Hindustani language 

 composed by John Josliua Ketelaer, for some time Ambassador of the 

 Dutch East India Compnny, to the Great Mogol, at Agra. Ketelaer's 

 Hindustani version of the Lord's Prayer is given by Signor Teza and 

 will bear reprinting as a curiosity. It runs — 



Hammare haah — Ke ivho asmaanmehe — Paah hoee teere naom — Auwe 

 hamJco moluk teera — HoS resja teera — Sjon asmaan ton sjimienme — Bootie 

 hammare nethi hamhon aasde — Oor maafhaar taxier apne hamko^-Sjon 

 nnajkarte apre harresdaar oiikon — Nedaal hamko is was wasjeme — Belk 

 hamko ghaskar is hoerayse. Teeroe he patsjayi, soorranri alemgiere heamet- 

 me. Ammen. 



I owe to the courtesy of Mr. W. Irvine, the following information 

 about Ketelaer. He was accredited to Shah 'Alam Bahadur Shah 

 (1708-1712) and Jahandar Shtih (1712). Tn 1711 he was the Dutch 

 Company's Director of Trade at Surat. He passed through Agra both 

 going to and coming from Lahore {via Delhi), but there does not 

 seem to be any evidence available that he ever lived there, though the 

 Dutch Company had a factory in that city subordinate to Surat. The 

 Mission arrived near Lahore on the 10th December 1711, returned to 

 Delhi with Jahandar Shah, and finally started from that place on the 

 14th October 1712, reaching Agra on the 20th October. From Agra 

 they returned to Surat. A detailed account of the Embassy, taken 

 from a diary kept by one Ernst Coenraad Graaf, first sworn clerk 

 to the Embassy, will be found in P. Valentijn's Oud en Nieuw 

 Oost Indien, Vol. IV. (Ed. 1726), pp. 282-302. Some further parti- 

 culars concerning Ketelaer will be found in Ost Indien und Fer- 



sianische Beisen, von Johann Gottlieb Worms, Aus Doheln , oder , 



aus Licht gestellt durch M. Crispinum Weisen Past. Zu. Mochau, 1st Ed. 

 Dresden 1737 ; 2nd Ed. Leipzig 1745, 8vo. Prom this^ we learn that 

 Ketelaer was also called Kotelar, Kessler, or Kettler, and that he was 

 a Lutheran born at Elbingen in Prussia. In 1716 he had been three 

 years Director for the Dutch Company at Surat. He was then ap- 

 pointed their envoy to Persia and left Batavia in July 1716, having 

 been 30 years in the Dutch Service, or in the East Indies. He was a 

 heavy corpulent man, and died of fever at Gambroon on the Persian 

 Gulf on his return from Isfahan, after having been two dajs under 

 nrrest, because he would not order a Dutch ship to act under the 

 Persian Governor's orders against some Arab invaders. 



I take this opportunity of drawing attention to some early works 

 on Indian languages which have come to my notice since I wrote 



1 Second Ed., i)p. 22, 247, 248, 303. 



