Storia do Mogor 9.1.2

9.1.2

' Wherefore I placed in the hands of a certain friend of mine this work, divided into four parts, in which I treat carefully and accurately of the times from Tamerlane to Aurangzeb, who now holds the sceptre, as well as of all his family and of the principal chiefs of the army. With it I handed over to him sixty-four coloured pictures now in Paris. And these ' [i.e., the books and pictures] ' ought, according to my directions, to have been forwarded to the Reverend Father Eusebius, a Capuchin of Bourges ' [Bituriens, the mediaeval name for that province], ' Apostolic missionary in the East Indies, that he might offer them on my part to the Most Serene Senate to dispose of them as they might think best. But my friend died at Galle ' [? Egellia in text], 'and, as I had feared, my said book fell into the hands of the aforesaid Fathers, who wrote to me on this matter. But little gratification did I get from their writings, with selections from my works, for they only set forth what was of comparatively little value in the book, and what was best they kept to themselves.