1896.]. E. D. Maclagan— Jeswit Missions to the Emperor Akbar. 79 
of the church at Lahor. Our next letter! is one written by the last 
named from Lahor, some time after Whitsuntide 1599,? and it isa 
letter of which the counterpart might be found in almost any issue of 
a modern Missionary Journal. It begins by stating that since Xavier 
left for Agra, there had been 38 persons baptised by the mission in 
Lahor: and it proceeds to describe two recent cases. One is of three 
Hindus converted against the will of their relations, who were con- 
ducted on Whitsunday in a procession through the city with palms in 
their hands, and then having passed through a large and somewhat 
noisy multitude to the Church, were therein baptized. The other case 
relates to a Muhammadan girl of sixteen years of age, who on seeing 
the others baptized insisted on being baptized herself and convinced 
the priest that she was well instructed in the faith. She was accord- 
ingly baptized under the name of ‘Grace,’ but her parents at once 
turned her out of their house. .She was then addressed by a Muham- 
madan who wished to marry her, but from him she fled and was put 
by Pinheiro in charge of a married Christian. The Muhammadan 
complained londly to the Governor of the city, who summoned Pinheiro 
and then called for the girl;'at this the Muhammadan rejoiced as he 
would now be able to kidnap her, but Pinheiro circumvented him and 
brought the girl safely before the Governor, who finding her most 
zealous in her profession of Christianity declined to interfere. Pinheiro 
was greatly pleased at this triumph and the girl was shortly afterwards 
married to a Christian. 
The Father Provincial’s Report of December 1599. 
The next accouut we have is the report sent to the General from 
Goa by the Provincial, Father Pimenta, in December 1599.3 Only a 
part of the report deals with the North of India and a good deal of this 
is taken up with accounts thence received regarding Thibet. In describ- 
ing that country the Provincial quotes from a letter which he says was 
written by Xavier on the 26th July 1598. The account which he quotes 
is somewhat fuller than that given in the letter which Xavier addressed 
to the General in 1598 (see preceding page), but differs so little from it 
that it was presumably written about the same time. 
1 See Oranus ‘ Japonica, Sinensia, Mogorana’ and the Maintz version referred to 
on p. 44 above. Copies of the letter are also to be found in Hage and De Dien. 
@ The letter is published as having been written in 1598, but the Whitsuntide 
feast of 1599 is mentioned in it. 
3 The Latin date is ‘Oct. Kal. Jan. 1599’ and the real date seems from 
the letter to be either St. Thomas’ Day (December 21st), or December 25th 1599. See 
‘Nova Relatio’ [p. 44 above.] The Portuguese version of 1602 gives 26th November 
as the date. 
