104 E. D. Maclagan—Jesuit Missions to the Emperor Akbar. [No. J, 
and at our house, where he saw our hooks and listened to some of the 
Gospel Stories and things concerning our religion with patience and 
attention. He ate some dried fruit with great familiarity, as if he were 
our dear friend and not the son of Calichc&o, the greatest enemy of the 
Faith of Christ. Your Reverence will understand that it was a great thing 
for him to eat and drink in our house, because they think it a great sin to 
eat with Christians, and consider him a Christian who eats the bread of 
Christians from Christian hands...... He begged us so earnestly for a picture 
of Christ that I was obliged to give it to him. He asked for another which 
is in the Church, and I asked a noble who isa great friend of his to dissuade 
him from pressing the point, and after he had done so he excused himself 
to me with many compliments and friendly offers. He offered me a hundred 
rupees and when I explained that the Fathers could not take money from any 
one, he was overcome with surprise and related the fact to many.’ [Then 
follows a relation of other cases in which Christians had caused surprise by 
refusing to receive presents]. 
Then follows a quaint episode :— 
‘I went to see him afterwards, and he received me with smiles and 
affection. A rich present had been brought to him, amongst other things 
two flasks of precious liquor which he held in either hand. JI said: ‘Sir, 
here is’ our basket, in which we receive the Emperor’s alms. May we not 
have your coin also?’ He put down what he held and took the basket. 
The person who held his money said. ‘I will toss up, for the Father:’ but 
he replied: ‘ No. I will do it myself.’ The first throw was not favourable, 
and he tossed again and then returned the basket to me with pleasure to 
the surprise of the by-standers. These little things are very important 
here, though they may be laughed at elsewhere,’ 
Even the old Qulij Khan proved more tractable after this and 
when a firman came from the Emperor ordering that 1,000 rupees should 
be given to the Fathers, he went so far as to write on the firman ‘ Belal 
carcar’ [P bilae katkut]: if this had not been done, says Pinheiro, the 
Fathers would according to the usual custom have received only 333 
rupees out of the 1,00v. 
Before Qulij Khan returned, however, the Government was for a 
time in the hands of Caidc&io [Said Khan] and Mirza ‘Abdu-r-rahim, as 
Subadar and Diwan respectively, two offices that had been combined 
under Qulij Khan. ‘Both,’ says Pinheiro, ‘received us with many 
promises especially the Divao whom we know best.’ Of Mirza ‘Abdu- 
r-rahim all that we know is apparently that he was nephew of Mirza 
Haidar the author of the’ Tarikh-i-Rashidt.!_ The histories tell us more 
of Said Khan, a Chaghatai noble who had just repressed the rebellion of 
Ghazi Khan in Sindh.? It appears that Ghazi Khan who had made submis- 
sion was then on his way to Akbavr’s court, for Pinheiro gives the follow- 
1 Blochm,, Ain I. 464. @ Blochm., Azz I. 331. 
