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SUPPLEMENT TO THE TEXT OF 
The loss of fol. 5 can be remedied in various ways 
1. The index to Monserrate’s Mongolicce Legationis Commentarius contains the 
following entries : — 
Zelaldinus, magnus Mongolorum Rex, 5a. 2. 
Antonins Cabralius ad Equebarem legatus, 5 a. 3. 
Antonins Noronius, Indise pro Rege pmeses, 5a. 3. 
Lusitanorum constantiam Zelaldinus periclitatur, 5 a. 4. 
Lusitanorum uirtus et fortitudo, 5 b. 1. 
Petrus Tauarius, patritius Rusitanus, 5 b. 3. 
Sacerdotes Societatis Jesu duo in Gangaride, 5 b. 4. 
Ismael Culicanus, 5 b. 4. 
Mgidius Joannides Gangaridis Archimystes, 5 b. 4. 
2. Cf. Monserrate’s Relagam do Equebar , Rei dos Mogores.’ Appendix B. 
3. Cf. J. B. PERUSCHi, S.J., Informations del Regno e Stato del gran Re di 
Mogor . ... , Brescia, P. M. Marchetti, 1597. 
This is based for the greater part on No. 2. 
4. Cf. D. Bartoli, S.J., Delle opere del Padre Daniello Bartoli . . . Vol. 
XXXVIII . Delle Memorie Istoriche , Libro quarto, Torino, Marietti, 1847, C- XXIV, pp. 
347-355- 
5. Cf. Daniel Bartoli, S.J., Missions al Gran Mogor del Padre Ridolfo 
Aquaviva .... Roma, MDCCXIV, pp. 7-14. 
[p. 7] “There at Fatipur, a town and Court built by himself, Achabar often con- 
versed with a certain Portuguese called Pietro Tavares, a clever man, the Captain of a 
harbour in Bengala, who served him in the military profession. The King would 
sometimes discuss with him jestingly and mockingly about the Moorish religion 
which he [Akbar] professed, not that he discovered any truth in the Alcoran, 
but solely because, [8] being born and bred in that religion, his only reason for not 
abandoning it was that he did not know what other religion to embrace. If the dis- 
putations of his Mulas did not satisfy him, those of the Bramans, satisfied him 
still less. Once, in one of these conversations, he asked Tavares what was 
the value and truth of the scriptures of the Christians, and how far their 
doctors could defend them. Tavares started speaking, to the best of his know- 
ledge, about the Old and the New Testament, and about the Fathers of the 
Society. He said what he thought would give a good opinion of their life, and 
added in praise of their talents that, if His Majesty were pleased to call from India 
some two of them, he hoped they would in a few days bring him to a knowledge of 
the truth, whereas he was losing his time in trying to discover it in the disputations of 
the Mulas and the Bramans. And as for the Fathers, he [Akbar] had come to esteem 
them those last three years as men of great integrity of life. This, because two of 
them, having come to preach in his dominions in Bengala, and finding that the Chris- 
tians there defrauded his Royal Exchequer of the taxes they rightfully owed for anchor- 
age, and of the annual imposts agreed upon between them, obliged them to make resti- 
tution. A large sum was thus recovered, and the King, wise as he was, on hearing of it 
