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equal care a second obelisk also attributed to Ramchandra and situated , according 
to Monserrate, in the small plain where Akbar encamped after descending the Western 
slope of the Khaiber Pass. (Pong. no° 43'; Rat. 34 0 20'. Monserrate.) 
Finally, from a note on fob 82 b., it is evident— for the writing seems always the 
same — that our anonymous annotator had consulted Monserrate’s Bk. II. The note 
is in Portuguese: <f Vide Achegas pera 0 2 d0 Livro. Fo. 30 b” i.e. “See Additions for 
Bk. II, fol. 30 b.” 
Is Wilford the author of the pencil-marks ? A comparison with his handwriting 
would readily settle the question ; but, where are specimens to be obtained ? On 
the other hand, how is it that no allusion to the obelisks is to be found anywhere in 
Wilford’ s writings, or that he did not utilize the tables of longitudes and latitudes ? 
Is it likely, too, that Wilford would have presented the MS., and that without Bk. II 
to Fort William College before 1818, four years at least before his death ? l 
How did the mysterious annotator — we shall call him X. — know anything of 
Father Anthony Botelho’s De Christiana apud Mogorem religione ? It is worth 
copying his note as it stands. Of Akbar’s embassy to Goa in 1579, P ar t °f which is 
missing in the Calcutta MS., he writes on fob 6 a: Caret folium 5 ubi relatum fuit 
quomodo Zelaldin ( seu Hacabar ) terras Bisnagar, Visapor & qucecumq ; Mogorem 
Bengalamque interjacent hello vastarit. Forte juxta Bengalam in Romanos Sacerdotes 
incidit. Vide Ant 0 Botelho De Christiana apud Mogorem Religione, p. 1. Vide 
index operis hujus. Voce Sacerdotes. Suppleri posset ex A. Botelho De Christiana 
apud Mogorem Religione incipiente ad calcem Summa memorand. Rerum quce apud 
Magni Mogoris vidit & Scheda © conseq. Copies of Fr. Botelho’s little treatise De 
Christiana apud Mogorem Religione must be rare enough. There is a copy in the 
possession of the Society of Jesus, and another in the British Museum, Marsden 
MSS. in Catalogue of Addit. MSS., Vol. I (1824-4:). Compare with the title at fob 
1 of No. 9855: Summa memorandarum rerum, quce [sic] apud Magni Mogoris Regnum 
vidit , et obseruauit Pater Antonius Botelho [a seal?] Societatis Jesu Goance Prouincice 
Prcepositus Prouincialis intra sexennium , quo illic Superior uixit, et Missionarius . 
From notes sent me by Mr. W. R. Philipps I know that a new section begins at the 
top of leaf 14, entitled “ De Christiana apud Mogorem Religione.” This ends at the 
back of leaf 16. Reaves i-’i6 are in Ratin; leaves 17-46 are in Portuguese : the Ratin 
being an abridgment of the Portuguese. The writing looks the same throughout. 
There is no date or signature. 
Fr. Botelho went to Agra as Visitor at the end of 1647, and must have arrived at 
his destination in the beginning of 1648. His name appears on one of our catalogues 
• In 1870, the question of the whereabouts of the Monserrate MS. mentioned by Wil F ord was mooted by R. R. W. 
Ellis in Notes and Queries (1870, Vol. I, p. 161) in answer to a question by Col. H Yule (cf. ibid., p. 59). But. Mr. Ellis’ 
answer is as disappointing as Col. Yule’s query was interesting. Col. Yule called for information about a countryman 
of his one George Strachan of the Merns, a Scotchman, Jesuit and Oriental traveller, temp. Jac. I. Pietro della 
Valle met him at Combru (Bender Abbas) in 1622, and though he enters into many details of Strachan’s history, “ he 
was to all appearances ignorant of the fact that Strachan was a Jesuit.” Cf. DErEA Vaeee’S Travels edited by 
Gancia (Brighton, 1843, Vol. II, pp. 50 and 437). Mr. Ellis’ reference to one of Wilford’s extracts from Monserrate 
{As. Res., IX, 212) is beside the mark entirely. There is no allusion to Strachau in Monserrate, nor could there be. 
Monserrate had died in 1600, and Strachan did not go to the East till several years later. 
