68 EB. D. Maclagan — Jesuit Missions to the Emperor Akbar. [No. 1, 
3rd. December 1594 the party had left Goa proceeding to Daman, and 
thence to Cambay and Ahmadabad, and the Father repeats some of the 
information given in his letter from Cambay above quoted. He adds 
however a short sketch of the Jogis of Gujarat who he says, ‘are like our 
monks’, and refers to the veneration in which the cow is held. He also 
gives an interesting and enthusiastic description of the tomb of a certain 
‘Cazis, magister cujusdam regis Guzzarati’, situated 13 leagues from 
Ahmadabad, ‘opus inter Barbaros minime barbarum.’! On Mar. 19th. 
1595 the party left Ahmadabad, reaching Pattan on the 24th which was 
Haster Eve according to the Gregorian calendar. The Fathers had great 
difficulty in persuading the Armenians in the caravan to celebrate Haster 
on the following day, but ultimately they all agreed, ‘ex mero timore 
quia redeundum illis erat per terram nostram vel quia cesserant 
veritati,’ except one old man (excepto uno doctore vetulo pertinace) 
who celebrated his own Haster by himself later on. The cities they 
passed through were utterly ruined, and the people were heathen though 
the chief buildings were mosques ; food ran short, the heat was intense, 
the mirages were very irritating, and they were all glad when on May 
5th 1595 they entered Lahor.? 
There the Fathers were honourably received by the Emperor :— 
‘He ordered, writes Pinheiro, ‘that we should lodge in a part of the 
spacious palace which he himself inhabits, near to the river which passes at a 
distance of fifteen spans. In size the river equals a lake. No one may 
enter to us except Christians coming to Mass and such heathen and Muham- 
madans as we may permit, for the guards bar the way to all others. On the 
evening following our arrival the Emperor called us and showed us pictures 
of our Saviour and the Blessed Virgin, and held them in his arms with as 
much reverence as though he were one of our priests. When we saw the holy 
pictures we knelt down, and seeing this the Emperor’s ten-year-old grand- 
son,° the Prince’s son, also clasped his hands and bent his knees: whereon 
the Emperor was delighted and said to the prince ‘ Look at your son.’ These 
same pictures the Hmperor delivered to us at the Festival of the Blessed 
Virgin to be deposited in our chapel. Then he showed us his books which 
were many and good. Such as the Royal Bible, then other Bibles, Concord- 
ances, four parts of the Summa of 8. Thomas, one work against the heathen 
and another against the Jews and Saracens &., Soto, S. Antoninus, the Histo- 
1 Apparently the tomb of Ganj Bakhsh, though the description does not quite 
tally. 
# The route followed from Pattan is not stated. The party had intended to go 
by Sindh (that is apparently via Tatta and Multan), but the Governor was too 
engaged in keeping the Ramzan to attend to them. 
8 Khusrii was born in 1587-9: the exact date is not known (BI. Az. I, 310): he 
would therefore not be more than 8 years old. 
