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TRAVELS OF FRAY SEBASTIEN MANRIQUE
16291643
VOL. 1: ARAKAN
SECOND SERIES
No. LIX
ISSUED FOR 1926
PRINTED IN ENGLAND AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD BY JOHN JOHNSON PRINTED TO THE UNIVERSITY
COUNCIL OF THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY (1926)
SIR ALBERT GRAY, K.C.B., K.C., President.
SIR JOHN SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D., Vice-President.
SIR CHARLES PRESTWOOD LUCAS, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., Vice-President.
ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET THE RIGHT HON. SIR EDWARD HOBART SEYMOUR, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O., LL.D., Vice-President.
JOHN F. BADDELEY, ESQ.
SIR WILLIAM FOSTER, C.I.E.
DOUGLAS W. FRESHFIELD, ESQ., D.C.L.
EDWARD HEAWOOD, ESQ., Treasurer.
ARTHUR R. HINKS, ESQ., C.B.E., F.R.S.
SIR JOHN F. F. HORNER, K.C.V.O.
SIR EVERARD IM THURN, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B.
T. A. JOYCE, ESQ., O.B.E.
SIR FREDERIC G. KENYON, G.B.E., K.C.B., F.B.A., Litt.D.
COL. C. ECKFORD LUARD, C.I.E.
ALFRED P. MAUDSLAY, ESQ., D.Sc.
PROFESSOR EDGAR PRESTAGE, D.Litt.
THE RIGHT HON. JAMES PARKER SMITH.
BRIG.-GEN. SIR PERCY M. SYKES, K.C.I.E., C.B., C.M.G.
LIEUT.-COLONEL SIR RICHARD CARNAC TEMPLE, BART., C.B., C.I.E., F.B.A., F.S.A.
SIR REGINALD TOWER, K.C.M.G., C.V.O.
J. A. J. DE VILLIERS, ESQ.
F. P. SPRENT, ESQ., Hon. Secretary.
AAF KH AN
Minister to Shh Jahn
TRAVELS OF FRAY SEBASTIEN MANRIQUE 16291643
A TRANSLATION OF THE
ITINERARIO DE LAS MJSSIONES ORIENTALES WITH INTRODUCTION AMD NOTES BY
LT.-COL. C. ECKFORD LUARD, C.I.E., M.A.
ASSISTED BY
FATHER H. HOSTEN, S.J.
IN Two VOLUMES
VOL. 1: ARAKAN
MEMBERS of the Society will join with the Council in lamenting the death of the accomplished Editor of this volume, which occurred at Oxford on May 17a few days before his work, already completely revised by him, was ready for press and publication.
Educated at Marlborough and Christ Church, Colonel Luard began his Indian career in the 8th Gurkhas. After six years military service he was transferred to political work in Central India, where most of his subsequent career was passed. The results of his scholarly researches in the ethnography, politics, art, and social life of the native states are largely recorded in the official publications of the Indian Government. He had, however, further stores of experience which he intended to employ in the service of India during his retirement. This promise of continued usefulness has been broken by death at the comparatively early age of 57.
June, 1927.
PREFACE
T HE work of translating and editing Manriques Itinerario was entrusted to me by the Hakluyt Society some years ago.
I had completed the translation and was engaged on the notes when I learned of the work already done by Father H. Hosten, the well-known Oriental scholar. Doubtless I ought to have known of the chapters translated by him from Manrique, which had appeared in Bengal: Past and Present, but it is very easy for those in India, stationed far from the big centres of civilization where libraries are not, to miss seeing publications, especially the Journals of Societies.
Father Hosten at once came to visit me, and with characteristic generosity expressed his pleasure at the prospect of the publication of the whole of Manriques work, and not only begged me to make free use of what he had done, but at the same time made over to me certain MS. notes he had lying by him and some unedited translations of chapters.
To have accepted all this with a mere acknowledgement in this Preface would have been, it seems to me, an inadequate return for almost poaching, though unwittingly, on his preserves, and at my request, therefore, Father Hostens name appears on the title-page.
It is unnecessary to enlarge on the advantage it was to me to have Father Hostens unrivalled knowledge of Bengal and its Christian missions at my disposal. All important notes by him are marked [H.]: notes of my own marked [C. L.] are occasionally appended.
Father Hosten lived near Calcutta, while I was stationed some days journey by rail from that city. We were busy men, fully occupied with our official duties, and it was, therefore, not practicable for us to meet, while before the work was finished I had retired from India. These facts made personal consultation impossible.
I am anxious that this should be quite clear, as it is on my shoulders and mine alone that all shortcomings must rest (and I am conscious of not a few) and not upon Father Hostens, since the responsibility for the entire production of the work (beyond the Fathers notes) lies with me. The book has taken long to complete. But any one who has attempted to edit a work of this kind in India, when living far from Calcutta and Bombay, where alone libraries exist whence reference books can be obtained, will appreciate the inevitable delay and the added difficulties of the task.
The editor of a book of travels such as this, in which the author travels through India, Burma, Afghnistn, Persia, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, besides visiting China, the Philippines, and Java, is obliged to be importunate, and indent on the knowledge of others.
The most difficult section is that dealing with Arakan. But here fortune favoured me. Mr. G. E. Harvey, I.C.S., whose admirable little
