88 E. D. Maclagan—Jeswit Missions to the Hmperor Akbar. [No. 1, 
inside, it was sent out by a eunuch to the Fathers, who then showed 
it publicly to a large crowd of courtiers amid ‘marvellous silence.’ 
After it had been taken home, it was once more sent for by the Em- 
peror to allow of his having it copied by lis own native painters aud 
this time it remained several days in the palace. After this, the Fathers 
would not let it out of their possession, except on two occasions. On one 
of these it was sent to the house of ‘Aziz Koka with the result that this 
powerful officer was thereby won over to the Jesuits’ side. On another 
occasion it was sent to the King of Qandahar and returned with much 
politeness and with offers of bakhshish, which the Fathers refused. 
The Fathers meantime busied themselves in various good works. 
They were able to rescue from slavery, a number of half-castes who 
had been made prisoners in the war in the Deccan, and to baptize them 
after instructing them in the faith. Some other cases of baptisms are 
also narrated, In Lahor, Pinheiro baptized two sons of the king of 
Persia’s ambassador, Manuchiher, a Georgian who had been in the 
country six years, and was then returning to Persia. Healso found means 
to get possession of a young Hungarian slave from Buda Pesth, who 
was accompanying a Turkish embassy, and to send him to Goa.!_ More- 
over when a Native Christian woman who had been kidnapped in her 
youth and sold to a Greek who had afterwards married her, was 
claimed by her parents, Pinheiro was able by showing the Emperor’s 
jirman to obtain for her the right to remain with her husband. 
Some time during the year 1602, Xavier was able to obtain the 
release from durance of some 50 shipwrecked Portuguese who had been 
seized by the Governor of Cambay and sent to the Court. During this 
same year the relations between the Emperor and his son, Salim, 
became very strained : and it is interesting to notice the care which the 
Fathers took to stand well with both parties. Salim, we are told, wrote 
to Xavier with his own hand, superscribing his letter with across. Xavier 
took care to have the letter read in the Hmperor’s presence and to reply in 
Portuguese. He had an agent with the Prince in the person of Giovanne 
Filippo® through whom correspondence could pass. The substance of 
this correspondence, as described by Du Jarric is of some interest and the 
position adopted by the Prince towards Christianity about this time is 
1 Cf. p. 98 below. 
2 Cf. p. 90 below. Dnu Jarric, III. 79, implies that they arrived at Lahor and 
that Xavier interceded for them there. It does not appear, however, that either 
Akbar or Xavier had gone to Lahor this year. 
5 If this be not the Italian mentioned on p. 91 below, it may possibly be John 
Philip de Bourbon, the husband of Juliana mentioned in the note on p. 53 above: but 
I have no information regarding de Bourbon beyond what is given in Col. Kineaid’s 
article there referred to. ; 
