48, The Pitt Diamond and the Eyes of Jaggannath, 
Puri. 
A further note by the Rev. H. Hosren, S.J. 
Qui cherche, trouve, though very often we make our dis- 
coveries long after we have given up the search, and while we 
are looking for something else. 
Here is another reference to the rubies in the eyes of 
Jagannath. ! 
‘*On Thursday, the 4th of August [1701], we passed pretty 
close to the famous Pagode Jam-grenats, the Statue of which is, 
country. : 
This passage strengthens considerably our conclusion that 
the Pitt Diamond did not come from Puri. About December 
1701 Jaurchund offered Pitt the famous diamond ;* Pitt bought 
it at Madras about February 1702 and sent it home on October 
9 of that year. Already in a letter from Madras dated October 
18, 1701, he had written to Sir Stephen Evance, his London 
P > 
“A massive statue of gold, as large as St. Christopher.’ 
This expression of Biron’s is worth comparing with Friar Odo- 
! Cf. our previous notes in J.A.S.B., 1912, pp. 133-144; ad bre ae 
2 Cf. C. Biron, Curiositez de la Nature et de V Art, a gong 
deux Voyages des Indes: l'un aux * Occtdent ¢: MDOCITI p. 
utre aux Indes d’Orient en 1701: & 1702. Paris M ig 
$ Cf. Yule, Diary of W. Hedges, IIL, pp. exxv, cxxvi, oxxxvil, 
* Cf. Ibid., pp. exxi, exxii. 
