Storia do Mogor 3.14

3.14

In preparing his volume of 1715, had Catrou access to the fourth and fifth parts of Manucci's work, sent home, one in 1706 and the other before 1712? I think not. It is true that Catrou carries his narrative beyond 1700, the period at which Manucci's Parts I., II., and III. terminate; but the probabilities are that, for the last twenty to twenty-five pages of his later volume, he relied on those other memoirs from India of which he speaks in his preface. I have put together the following list of editions of Catrou from the catalogues of the British Museum and the India Office Library, from Carlos Sommervogel's edition of Backer's 'Bibliographic de la Compagnie de Jesus,' ii., column 882, s.v. Catrou, F., from Lowndes, ed. 1862, vol. i., p. 393, and from the exemplars in my own possession.