84 BE. D. Maclagan—Jeswit Missions to the Emperor Akbar. [No. 1, 
heaven.’ Among the latter was a little female infant picked up from a 
dung-heap and the incident at once suggested the quotation: ‘ De 
stercore erigens pauperem ut collocet eum eum principibus.’ In the spring 
of 160]1,! the Emperor returned to Agra and with him went Xavier. 
While in the Deccan the Emperor despatched an embassy to Goa 
on some purely political object, and allowed Goes to accompany this 
embassy. They arrived at Goa in May 1601, bringing many costly 
presents, but the most precious of the presents, says Du Jarric, was a 
band of half-caste children who had been taken prisoners at Burhanpur 
and who now, after some instruction, were baptized at Goa into the faith 
of their fathers. While at Goa, Benedict de Goes received the orders 
to start upon his Thibetan journey. At the same time a Jesuit Father, 
Antony Machado, was appointed to take his place with Xavier, and the 
two set forth, arriving at Agra (if we may judge from the description 
of the heat) in the spring or early summer of 1602. 
Meantime the Lahor Mission had, since Pinheiro’s letter of 1598, 
experienced some vicissitudes of fortune. , 
At the first, things went on well. The Viceroy was in every way 
favourable to the mission. Pinheiro succeeded in obtaining from him 
the pardon of prisoners condemned to death. Fugitives from justice took 
refuge in the church. The Father’s intervention was constantly soucht, 
Even great feuds such as one that broke out between the Juge-mage 
and the Emperor’s treasurer ( ? the Qazi and the Diwan) were com- 
posed by his arbitration. When this Viceroy died and was succeeded by 
his brother,? efforts were made to discredit the mission, but the only 
result was that the maligners of the mission were imprisoned. About 
this time, however, a determined effort was made by some bad characters 
to rob the Fathers, and the detailed account of the attempted robbery, 
as set forth in the pages of Du Jarric, gives usa curious insight into the 
manners and habits of the mission. It will suffice here to note that an 
outsider, having brought himself into the house as a possible convert, 
put datura into the food, and when allthe household was stupified called 
in his accomplices and broke open the Father’s store room, taking away 
such money as there was and some relics which the Father prized more 
than money. The thieves apparently were not discovered, but the 
Viceroy and the Kotwal came in person to the Father to offer their 
sympathy. 
At Christmas in the year 1600, Pinheiro again appealed to the 
I Elphinstone, Hist. Ind, Hd. 1857, p. 458. 
% The two friendly Viceroys appear from Pinheiro’s letter of 1605 to have been 
Xumaradin (Qamru-d-din) and Xenc&o (Zain Khan.) Zain Khan Koka was Viceroy 
at Lahor just before Akbar’s return to Agra in 1602. (Blochm. Az I. 340.) 
