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clergyman's false and slanderous information, he ordered to seize Father Buzeu, then 

 with Mirza. L The King started from Cassimir for L,aor, and the roads were so bad 

 that he left the greater part of the army in Cassimir with orders to follow the next day. 

 Father Buzeu was yet in prison, and Mirza Zulcarane, who could not stomach it, left 

 in all haste to overtake and interview the King, which he did two leagues from 

 Cassamir [Srinagar]. Mirza was going in a palanquin, accompanied by his people; 

 he traversed the King's lascar, and, as his breaking through the King's army was 

 attended with loud protests, the King remarked it and asked what the matter was. 

 From mouth to mouth the news reached him that Mirza Zulcarane came to speak with 

 His Highness. Immediately the King told them to stop his state- conveyance or 

 Tactarabandi? as it is called, — a very large litter (andor) carried by 16 to 20 men, on 

 the top of which is a silver cherola. 6 To the Umbraos near him, among others 

 Alimardan ['All Mardan Khan] (about whom I said much a propos of the Mogol 

 King's greatness), he said, ' Sastao,' i.e., stop, 4, ' and let it be said that King Xajan 

 orders to stop his train in order to speak with Mirza Zulcarane.' The latter coming 

 in the King's presence, said loudly and angrily, for he was naturally irritable, f Sire, 

 how can you, on so glaring a lie, leave my Padre in prison? Say that he must be 

 free, and here I give you my head to cut off any time that they prove what they 

 accuse the Father of.' Mirza was so much in earnest that the King told him, 'Go 

 back to Cassamir, and tell Sadulacan [Sa'dullah Khan], the King's chief Umbrao, 

 el secundus a Rege [and next in power to the King], to bring the Father with him to 

 Laor, when he comes.' The moment Mirza had turned to go away, the King said to 

 Pol. 45V. the Umbraos || near him, ( Did you not notice how angry and vexed Mirza was when 

 speaking to me ? Don't be surprised; I know the man, and I must bear with him, 

 while life lasts, since we were brought up together as boys in the Palace.' B 



" Mirza Zulcarane was married with Dona Ilena [Helena], whose grave — a very 

 fine one— I saw at L,aor in a garden which Mirza owned there/ She bore him three 

 sons and a daughter. The eldest was called Mirza Observam; the 2nd, Mirza Eres; 

 the 3rd and youngest, Mirza Daniel. 1 Mirza saw his sons and daughter very honour- 



1 Events of 165 1. 



3 Takht-i-rawan : a kind of sedan chair. 



3 A charola (Port.) is a niche, e.g., the niche in which are placed the statues carried on biers in processions. " La 

 chirolle se place sur le dos de l'elephant ; il y en a de couvertes et d'autres qui ne le sont pas." M. Gentii,, MSmoires sur 

 I'lndoustan, Paris, 1822, p. 372 n. 1. 



* Probably ahista (vulg. =dste) : slowly. 



6 Fr. Busi says in a letter to the General (Lahore, 17th December 1651) that he had left prison some days before and 

 that, as the Rector [Fr. Anthony Botelho] had written on the subject, he did not enlarge on it. A letter of Fr. Botelho's 

 (Agra, 20th January 1652) to Fr. Bento Ferreira, Goa, states thathe had left Agra for Lahore on November 8th, 1651, to 

 obtain Fr. Busi's liberty. Much prudence was required. Bishop Dom Matheus was still in Lahore, ready to leave for 

 Agra, Surat, Mocha. Fr. Botelho had to conceal himself in the suburbs of Lahore until Bishop Matheus was gone. 

 Prince Dara Shikoh suggested to Mirza Zu-1-Oarnain, then at Lahore, to compose a piece of poetry to soothe Shah 

 Jahan. The result was obtained. Fr. Busi was restored to liberty on the feast of St. Francis Xavier, 1651 (i.e., Decem- 

 ber 3rd). 



6 Her death is announced in a letter by Fr. Francis Morando, S.J. (Agra, September 15th, 1638) as having taken 

 place some days before. May not Mirza Zu-1-Qarnain's mother, Lady Juliana, have been buried there too ? She had died 

 at Lahore in 1598. 



^ Mirza Observam would be John Baptist, Mirza Fres (Trij, Irich) would be Gaspar, and Mirza Daniel (Danyal) 



