1896.] E. D. Maclagan—Jesawit Missions to the Emperor Akbar. 47 
(c) the ‘ History of the Company,’ and (d) other documents ‘da nossa 
Secretaria de Goa.’ 
17.’ In the general Jesuit histories the fullest account of these 
Missions appears to be that given by Jouvency, on pp. 449-460 of 
Part V of Orlandini’s “ Historia Sociatatis Jesu,” published at Rome in 
1710, but there is nothing in this account which is not derived from the 
authorities quoted above. 
In addition to the above printed authorities there are several 
MS. letters in the British Museum Marsden Collection, No. 9854.1! 
There is also a Portuguese or Spanish manuscript (dated Goa, 26 Nov., 
1582) by an anonymous missionary, which was seen by Prince Frederick 
of Schleswig Holstein (Count von Noer), and was said by him to con- 
tain an admirable account of the condition of things at Akbar’s Court, 
and to have been evidently used by Du Jarric: it is not clear where this 
manuscript now is.? 
Tue First Mission, 1580-83. 
Of the first Mission, the best and shortest account is Peruschi’s, but 
further details are supplied by Guzman, who is mainly copied by Du 
Jarric: Bartoli who writes later and more diffusely can only be accepted 
with caution as a supplement to the above. 
From these authorities it would appear that Akbavr’s attention was 
first attracted towards Christianity by his hearing of the arrival of two 
Jesuits in Bengal in 1576: but he also received information regarding 
the Christian faith from an influential Portuguese subordinate of his 
own, called Peter Tavares, who is described as being in military charge 
of a port in Bengal.* These circumstances induced him to summon from 
Bengal a priest called Julian Perreira,“ who arrived at Fathpur Sikri in 
l The British Museum MSS. quoted in this paper have mainly been deciphered 
and translated for me by other hands, and I believe the translations to be substantially 
correct. There must be a certain number of other MS. letters of the period extant, 
which were written from Agra or Lahore or Goa: these are probably in Continental 
libraries. 
2 See Markham’s Introduction to Limburg Brouwer’s ‘ Akbar’ 1879. p. xxvi, and 
Noer Kaiser Akbar 1.489. Quotations are made from this MS. in Noer IJ. 11-12, 77-8, 
81-2, and 97-8 regarding the Gujarat and Kabul campaigns. The document which 
is possibly by Monserrat would perhaps throw light on the chronological difficulty 
referred to on p. 53 below. 
3 Beveridge (J. A. 8S. B., 1888, p. 34) suggests that Tavares may be the same as 
the Partab Bar of the Akbarndma (Elliot, Hist. Ind. VI. 59), Manrique (Ininerario, 
p. 13-14) gives an account of Tavares. See also Murray’s Hist. Acct. Il. 99. 
4 So called by Peruschi and by De Sousa (Or. Cong. II. 148); Bartoli gives the 
name as Hgidio Anes Perreira. Du Jarric (II. 438) says he was unable to discover the 
name of the priest. He was apparently not a Jesuit. 
