1872.] On Glargdon. — On Fatli. Tiefentaller. 59 



dynasty of Aracan. The paper will be printed, together with a drawing 

 of the coin, in the pe^-pd number of the Philological Part of the Journal. 



4. — N'otes on Ghargdon, As dm, — 5y J. M. Foster, Esq., F. E. Gr. S. 



Mr. Foster gives a description of the town of Grhargaon, the old capital 

 of Asam, the ruins of which lie close to the Nazirah on the Dik'hu river, 

 a tributary of the Brahmaputra. Several plans of Ghargaon and environs of 

 the old palace of the Rajahs, and two photographs of the latter, accompany the 

 paper. Mr. Foster has collected the notes of former writers on the subject, 

 and gives among others an interesting extract from a work on ' Shipwrecks' 

 regarding the adventures of several Dutch sailors who were forced to accom- 

 pany Mir Jumlah's fleet to Asam in 1662, It would appear that a large 

 number of Portuguese and English accompanied the General. 



The paper wiU appear in No. I of the first part of the Journal for this 

 year. 



5. — Note on Fatlier Tleffentaller, of tJie Society of Jesus and Missionary- 

 Apostolic in India, Sfc., — hy Lt.-Col. A. S. Allajst. 

 The Reverend Father Joseph Tieffentaller, known as a Missionary in 

 India, and voluminous writer on the topography and statistics, as well as on 

 the religion and natural history of many parts of this country, was born 

 about the year 1715, at Boesano, or Botzen, in the Austrian Tyrol. Having, 

 at an early age, embraced the rule of St. Ignatius, he left his native country, 

 in the year 1740, for Spain, where he remained for two years, awaiting an 

 opportunity of proceeding to India, the scene of his future labours. The 

 vessel, in which he embarked, landed him at Manilla, in the Spanish Philip- 

 pine Isles, and he was unable to reach India until December l74fS, when he 

 arrived at Daman near Goa ; thence he proceeded to Surat, returningto Daman 

 in March 1744. In September of the same year he again visited Siirat, and 

 afterwards proceeded to Bhroch, Barodah, Gudasa(?), Laravara(?), Sagwara(?) 

 Udaipur, Jaipur, Dig, and Agrah. In 1745, he visited Mathura and Bin- 

 draban ; in 1747, Dihli, whence he proceeded to Narwar, on the banks of 

 the Sindu, south-east of Gwaliar, where there was then a colony of native 

 Christians. He remained at Narwar until 1750, when he says that he returned 

 to Goa, from which it appears that he must have first arrived at that Portu- 

 guese city, before going to Daman, especially as he does not state explicitly 

 that he arrived at Daman from Europe. In the same year he travelled back 

 towards Narwar by way of Jodhpur, and Ajmir. From Narwar, which he 

 reached in April 1751, he visited Gwaliar, Gohud, and Agrah, returning to Nar- 

 war, by another route, in November following ; his permanent station was there 

 for a period of twelve years, but during that time he paid several visits to 

 Agrah and Dihli, (and also apparently to Labor,) to see his worthy friend, 

 Father Andreas Strobl, S. J., who had been sent for with another savant, 



