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me that he was in the College of Agra when Father Matheus de Paiva died there/ 

 and that the concourse of the Moors who accompanied him to the grave and carried 

 the coffin on their shoulders was such that it was wonderful ; and by this service 

 which they rendered to Fr. Matheus de Paiva, the Moors wished to testify to the 

 Father's great charity, when alive; for, having some knowledge of medicine, he 

 would help them with remedies in their illnesses. On All Souls' Day, the Fathers of 

 that Mission are in the habit of going with all the Christians to that garden or 

 cemetery, and to say Mass in that small chapel. At the end, there is a sermon on 

 the souls in Purgatory, and the Christians lay on the graves in that garden fine 

 napkins whereon they deposit off erings of eatables, which the Fathers at once distribute 

 among countless Jogues and faquirs who flock thither. 1 Besides them, many Moors 

 assemble there to witness the solemnity, to see the Father going along in his cope 

 {cap a d'asperges)* sprinkling holy water and reciting the responses over the graves. 

 I did it several years while I was at Agra, and, when performing this ceremony, I felt 

 the greatest pleasure and spiritual consolation, considering that we enjoyed this 

 liberty in spite of Muhammad and under the Great Mogol's beard. The Armenian 

 merchants (who were fifty or sixty in my time) were much surprised at the freedom 

 we had at the Great Mogol's Court. It was a privilege not enjoyed by the other 

 Religious settled in Constantinople, where the Turks molested them in a thousand 

 ways, going at times as far as beating them severely. 



" The College we have in Agra is built in the City itself, not much in the centre of 

 it, but towards the western third of it {nao muito no meyo delta, senao per a a terceira 

 parte que cae pera o Occidents).* Fr. Antonio d'Andrade, of happy memory, built this 

 College in the form of a Z. 5 It has eight rooms and two storeys {andares). And as 

 it was small, we had not lodgings enough to receive guests and some distinguished 

 Moors who came to speak with us, or Dutchmen and Englishmen, who have their 

 factories in the Town and are very kind to us. 8 I, being Visitor of that Mission, 

 added to it two small rooms and a hall for guests, and the Dutch and English them- 

 selves gave me for the purpose six or seven hundred rupees in alms. 1 In olden times, we 



-1 Nov. 2 (All Souls' Day), 1633. — See supra, p. 145. 



2 Jogis are Hindu ascetics; Fakir (lit. poor) is a Muhammadan mendicant, the word being frequently used by 

 the old European writers as synonymous with jogi. 



3 The cope used for the Asperges, or sprinkling with holy water before the parochial Mass on Sundays, is violet ; the 

 cope used for the blessing of graves is black. 



* More freely : " the College ... is towards the western third of the town rather than in the centre of it." Fr. Botelho 

 conceives the town as divided into three parts : east, west, and centre. 



5 The Portuguese has : ao modo dez [sic].— While Superior of Mogor in 1624, Fr. Antonio d'Andrade went to Tibet, 

 and from that moment to about 1630, when he became Provincial of Goa, his chief care was the Tibetan Mission. He 

 did not return to Mogor after 1630, and died at Goa on March 14, 1634. Hence, I fancy that he built the College near or 

 on the site of earlier buildings between 1621 and 1624, as in 1621 he appears as Visitor and Superior of the whole Mission 

 of Mogor (J.A.S.B., 1910, p. 530). 



« The generally excellent relations between the Jesuits and the Dutch and English factors are borne out by W. N. 

 Saixsbtjry'S Calendar of State Papers, 1513-1634, 5 vols. ; P. C. DANVERS' and W. Poster's Letters received by the E. I. 

 Co. (1602-17), 6 vols., and W. Foster's The English Factories in India, 1618-45. 



1 How shall we conceive the building before Fr. Botelho's additions ? As consisting of three rooms below. and three 

 above, plus two rooms below, one each at opposite ends of and at right angles to the building, thus giving us in all eight 

 rooms and the figure \ ? In summer the Fathers slept on the terrace. Fr. Botelho's additions, if they were exclusively 



