Storia do Mogor 342: [LETTER PREFIXED TO THE TRANSLATION.]

342

'My Most Illustrious Sir, Most Respected Signor,
'Your Excellency's most worthy sons, so promptly sent by you, have appeared here to receive the commission of the excellent and Most Venerable Lords. To them has been entrusted the book referred to, entitled "The Fifth Part of the History of the Mogul," by Nicolò Manuzzi. It is bound, and runs from folio two to folio ninety, written partly in Portuguese and partly in French; with some detached leaves, to the number of eleven, in one or the other language. Upon your Excellency's exertions we rely for the labour of this translation, in order to submit this Fifth Part to their Excellencies. This will raise higher than before your merits and those of your sons, who with ardent emulation encounter willingly all difficulties and overcome them. Repeating my own exalted respect, I subscribe myself,
'Of your Excellency, 'The most devoted, most obliged servant, 'Agostino Gadaldini.'
'Venice, 'February 20, 1712.'