Note 29 — Introductory Life of Akbar.

But the most valuable European account of the reign of Akbar was written by Pieter van den Broek, the chief of the Dutch factory at Surat in 1620. It was published, in Latin, by Johan de Laet, and forms the tenth chapter of his “De Imperio Magni Mogolis” (Leyden, 1631). De Laet calls it “a fragment of Indian history which we have received from some of our countrymen, and translated from Dutch into Latin.”29 Mr. Lethbridge has supplied an English version in the “Calcutta Review” for July 1873.30