[22] Colonel Yule compares Kublai Khan with Akbar (“Marco Polo,” i. p. 340), and Mr. Talboys Wheeler has drawn a parallel between Akbar and Asoka (“History of India,” iv. p. 136).
[23] “History of India, as told by its own Historians—the Muhammadan Period; being posthumous papers by Sir H. M. Elliot, K.C.B., edited and continued by Professor Dowson.”
[24] “The Revenue Resources of the Mughal Empire in India, A.D. 1593 to 1707,” by Edward Thomas, F.R.S., pp. 54. Trübner: 1871.
[25] Rudolf Aquaviva was born in 1551. He was a nephew of Claudio Aquaviva, the fourth General of the Jesuits, and a grandson of Giovanni Antonio Aquaviva, Duke of Atri, in Naples. The Dukes of Atri were as famous for their patronage of letters as for their deeds of arms. The missionary, Aquaviva, after his return from Agra, was sent to Salsette, where he was murdered by the natives in 1583, aged only thirty-two. Akbar, on hearing of his death, sent an embassy of condolence to the Portuguese Viceroy, and to the Jesuit Fathers at Goa.
[26] See my “Hawkins’ Voyages” (Hakluyt Society), pages 396 and 403. Pineiro wrote an account of his travels.
[27] See Colonel Yule’s “Cathay and the Way thither,” ii. pp. 529–591, for the journey of Benedek Goes. The narrative is taken from a work entitled “De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas, suscepta ab Societate Jesu, ex P. Matthaei Ricii commentariis, auctore P. Nicolao Trigantio.” 1615.
[28] See the “Histoire de la Compagnie de Jésus composée sur les documents inédits et authentiques par J. Crétineau-Joly” (6 vols. 8vo. Paris: 1844), ii. p. 510–12; also “Ranke Histoire de la Papauté,” iv. p. 159. Colonel Yule refers to the work of Jarric.
[29] Johan de Laet was born at Antwerp in the end of the sixteenth century and died in 1649. He was a Director of the Dutch West India Company, had an extensive acquaintance with learned men, and had special opportunities of collecting geographical and historical information, of which he diligently availed himself. His chief work was the “Novus Orbis seu descriptionis Indiae Occidentalis” (folio 1633). He wrote works on England, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, and Italy, which form part of the collection known under the name of “Les Petites Republiques,” printed by the Elzevirs at Leyden. De Laet also had a learned controversy with Grotius on the origin of the American races. He edited Pliny and Vitruvius.
[30] Fragments of Indian History, “Calcutta Review,” July 1873, No. cxiii. pp. 170–200. De Laet is quoted by Blochmann, and also by Mr. Thomas and Dr. Hunter.
[31] Fitch’s interesting account of this visit to the court of Akbar was published by Hakluyt.—See “Hakluyt Voyages” (2nd ed.), ii. pp. 375–399. Besides the narrative of Fitch, there are letters from Newbery, and the letter from Queen Elizabeth to Akbar.