This Translation and Annotation of Father Monserrate's Commentary on the first Jesuit Mission to Akbar owes everything to the careful editing of the Latin text carried through by Father H. Hosten, S.J., and published in the Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (Vol. Ill, pp. 513-704).

It should be mentioned that in preparing the translation proper names have, in almost every case, been left in the form in which Father la Monserrate wrote them. Exceptions are certain familiar and frequently recurring names, e.g., Rudolf and Muhammad, which appear somewhat strange in their Latin form. Father Monserrate, by the way, is by no means consistent in his spelling of proper names, the same name often appearing in various guises on a single page of the Commentary.