116 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (February, 1913. 
In 1826 Colonel R. Wilcox, on discovering the use of the 
since the twelfth century there existed a mission in the South 
of Thibet among a tribe called Shokhaptra.! 
d by Grueber in 
a@y from A The three native Christians mentio one 
Kircher’s China illustrata (Amsterdam, 1667, not 1665) must have been 
they Our 
Chris ee in pad ak 8 te the wears 1661- 63, when a aga wren 
of Portuguese, English, Dutch and Armenian urers helpe 
Jumla in his conquest ‘of A 
episode is related very spiritedly in Relation du see d’un Vaisseau 
landois, Nommé 
Hollan ’ mé Ter Schelling fay copy is a fragment of a collec ae 
PP. vi+131-276), pp. 250 sqq. The treasures end i pee a 
tombs of t gs of Assam were prodigious. Mir Jumla himself ca ; 
way are illio he Po a 
(half-castes) settled at Rangamati, a 
yg mati. 0 C i 
neighbourhood before 1695, the Chr isti 
d 
number of similar instances, ranging over countries very far apart, — 
the explanation of which is extremely c ] As suggested by Mes 
J. Coggin- rown an: 
: gi emp, the use of crosses as tattoo-marks 4 t 
have not the slightest Miiinaxion with Christianity; on the other hand, 
hould 
is no imipeaeibie that the Ab have borrowed the sign fro pe 
Tibetans. it bee d more recognized that the sigh © 
he cross—not stitka—found among the aad she etans 
is due to the influence of Nestorianism, an influence all too little arya 
edged heretofore. 1 refer the reader to the Lodges Sinologigues ae ? 
- GaILnarD, §.J., Croi « et Swastika en Chine, Edn., Changhai, ni 
primerie de la Mi ission 
Catholique, fois pp. 154-155, where Fr. Krick 
observations are mention Hi. 
1[E 
to 
very tel a ely gone tianity in India would like 
know whence Father Krick sae ok t this informati ist ? Is anything kno +? 
about the date and authorship of that t map or again about any of Wilco 
