1878.] T. W. H. Tolbort —History of the Portuguese in India. 207 
page 531, the fate of the captives is described. In the second volume, there 
is an account of the Portuguese at Chittagong. 
Khafi Khan, the most useful of the Muhammadan historians after 
Firislitali, also gives an account of the siege of Hugli, prefixing to it 
an interesting description of the Portuguese from his point of view. A 
fuller description is found in the second volume, page 100, reign of ’Xlamgir. 
Mr. Bloclimann, to whom I am indebted for several of the above refer¬ 
ences, tells me that the Portuguese are frequently mentioned in the Maasir 
ul Umara, a work containing biographies of the great men of the Mughul 
empire, and that there are occasional bigoted allusions to them in the Far- 
hang i Pashidi, a Persian dictionary written in 1G53. 
A certain amount of information is scattered through different periodi¬ 
cals. No. 3 of the Calcutta Review contains an article on the Jesuit mis¬ 
sions ; No. 10, the Portuguese in North India ; No. 51, the Shiry Family ; No. 
57, the Inquisition at Gfoa ; No. 77, the Life of Xavier ; Nos. 102 and 103, 
Topography of the Mogul Empire ; No. 105, the Feringhees of Chittagong. 
The Asiatic Researches contain articles on Malabar; The Syrian Chris¬ 
tians ; Nobili’s imitation of the Veda; and Bijapur. 
The Bengal Asiatic Society’s Journal is singularly deficient in articles 
bearing on our subject. The volume for 1811 mentions the Portuguese in 
connection with Arakan. That for 1813 contains an interesting account of 
Abyssinia, and the Portuguese missions there, and the volume for 18-11 con¬ 
tains an article called “ Political events in the Carnatic from 156-1 to 1687,” 
which may be considered to have a distant connection with the contempora¬ 
ry history of Portuguese India. There is also a modern account of Socotra, 
but so far as I have seen, there is not a single article devoted specially to 
Portuguese Asia. 
The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society is as deficient as our own in 
this respect. I cannot find a single article specially devoted to Portuguese 
India, but the following appear to have a distant bearing on the subject ; 
Yol. II, Transactions, Diplomatic relations between the courts of Delhi and 
Constantinople, in the 16 and 17 centuries. Yols. I and II, Journal, Memoir 
on the Syrian Christians ; Yol. II, Sea ports on the coast of Malabar; Yol. V, 
(or YI, P) account of the Sherley family ; Yol. VII, Tribes of the Northern 
Concan ; Vol. Y (new series), on Malabar, &c. 
The last series of the “ Journal Asiatique” gives no help. I have not 
seen the earlier series. We might expect more assistance from Bombay, as 
that Presidency has been always intimately connected with Portuguese 
India. But so far as I have ascertained, there is not much. Yol. II of the 
Bombay Literary Transactions contains a Turkish account of a naval 
expedition in the sixteenth century with references to the Portuguese. I have 
not seen Yol. III., but 1 believe it contains a description of Bijapur, and 
