Storia do Mogor 10.3

10.3

For a time I believed I was the first student of Indian history to unearth them, and that the notice in Zanetti's catalogue of 1741 had gone entirely unnoticed. Misled by the 'Nouvelle Biographie Generale,' I had started in search of a Lisbon edition of Manucci's work, and to that end asked my friend, Mr. J. Batalha-Reis, M.V.O., Consul-General in London, to procure me information from the great libraries of Lisbon. This attempt was infructuous, for I was on the wrong scent; but Mr. Batalha-Reis's attention had been roused, and since, as befits one of his nationality, he is a diligent student of, and deeply versed in, geographical literature, he soon afterwards directed me to a passage he had just seen in the work of Cardinal Placido Zurla (1769-1834) : 'Di Marco Polo | e degli altri | Viaggiatori Veneziani | . . .,' 2 vols., folio, Venezia, 1818. In vol. ii., in a chapter headed 'Of Some Learned Travellers,' he says (p. 293, para. 67) : 'But more than all is worthy of mention the crown of this chapter, Nicolo Manuzzi, who, resorting to the Mogul (country) towards the end of the seventeenth century, exercised medicine there for over forty years, and by the help of that (p.