Editor?s Note: In his Haklutus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes, Samuel Purchas collated a number of Jesuit letters relating to events in India and Southeast Asia under the title of ?Indian Observations Gathered out of the Letters of Nicolas Pimenta, Visiter of the Jesuites in India, and of many others of that Societie, Written from divers Indian Regionas; principally relating the Countries and accidents of the Coast of Coromandel, and of Pegu.? The main source cited by Purchas are the letters of Nicolas Pimenta, whose own letters related other letters of Portuguese priests who visited Pegu from 1599, shortly after the fall of Nan-d?-bayin (r. 1581- 1599), the last ruler of the First Taung-ngu Dynasty. Pimenta?s letters and most of these materials appear to have been extracted by Purchas from Padre Fern?o Guerreiro?s Jesuit Anual published in the first nine years of the seventeenth century under the title of Rela??o Annual das Coisas que fizeram os Padres da Companhia de Jesus nas suas Miss?es… Nos Anos de 1600 a 1609. The following text includes only those materials relevant to Southeast Asia and particularly to Burma. Minor printer?s errors have been corrected. The letters have also been re-sorted chronologically and some paragraph breaks, as well as the section headers, have been added...Voyage to Goa in December 1597... Pimenta?s Relation of Fernandes Letter of January 1599... Pimenta?s Further Observations... Emanuel Carvalius?s Letters from Melaka in January 1599... Boves Letter of March 1600... Pimenta?s Relations of Pegu... Pimenta?s Further Summary of Boves? and Fernandes? Letters.