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³ Manrique, *Itinerario de las missiones que hizo el padre F. Sebastian Manrique*, Roma, 1649, p. 417. See *ante*, chap. xii, p. 417. Some of Manrique’s observations are summarized in English in Murray, *Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Asia*, 1820, vol. ii, pp. 96–119, and again, more briefly, in Oaten, *European Travellers in India*, 1909, pp. 97–102; but his work has never been translated from the Spanish, although it contains much matter not in the pages of other travellers. The note on the Agra library is now cited for the first time. Manrique estimated the imperial treasure of various kinds, including the library, at Agra alone, to be worth 348,226,386 rupees, more than 42 millions sterling. His precise figures may have been obtained from official records. The exchange is taken at 2*s*. 3*d* per rupee, the rate current in Shahjahān’s reign.