1896.] EH. D. Maclagan— Jesuit Missions to the Emperor Akbar. 83 
great difficulty passed through the bands of brigands that infested the 
roads, by way of Sambusar (Jambisir) and Broach. On the 4th June 
1600 he reached the Mughal camp and on the 4th August he reported to 
the Visitor that he hoped shortly to start for Lahor and meantime was 
diligently studying the Persian language. 
Events of 1600-1603. 
We have no original letters available between the Ist December, 
1600 and the 6th September, 1604, and our main authorities for this 
period are Du Jarric’s History and the Relations of Guerreiro on which 
that history is almost exclusively based. It will suffice here to give 
a short resumé of the information supplied by Du Jarric.! 
The personnel of the mission altered somewhat during these years. 
Corsi whom we left at Burhanpur proceeded to Lahor probably before 
the end of 1600. Inthe spring of 1602, Xavier returned with Akbar 
to Agra, while Goes proceeded on a mission to Gea. Pinheiro joined 
Xavier either at Agra or before his arrival there, and was at Agra in 
the spring or in the hot weather of 1602, when Goes returned to that city 
bringing with him a new missionary, Father Antony Machado.? Not 
long after this, Pinheiro departed for Lahor and Goes seems to have 
followed in October 1602. Early in 1603 Goes left Lahor for his adven- 
- turous journey through Thibet,? and for the rest of that year, the mission 
was carried on in Agra by Xavier and Machado, and in Lahor by 
Pinheire and Corsi. 
We are told that when the Emperor moved from Burhanpur and 
laid siege to Asirgarh, His Majesty ordered Xavier to write to the 
Portuguese for guns and ammunition, and that the Father refused on 
the plea, that such action would be contrary to the Christian faith. 
‘In my opinion,’ says the chronicler, ‘the real reason was that the 
Emperor's enemies were in alliance with the Portuguese.’ Be that as 
it may, the Emperor became extremely angry and bade the mis- 
sionaries depart to Goa at once: but his anger soon blew over and they 
remained on as before. When the fort was taken, Xavier was instru- 
mental in saving the lives of some half-caste renegades among the 
. prisoners and re-converting them to Christianity. Itis said, moreover, 
that during this Deccan campaign some seventy persons were baptized, 
including some who ‘departed incontinently to enjoy the glory of 
1 Vol IiJ, 30-85. 
2 Of Machado nothing further,seems to be known. He is buried in the old 
cemetery at Agra, where he died in April 1635, and his name can still be deci- 
phered on the tombstone. Fanthome, Reminiscences of Agra, 1895, p. 63. 
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