SS 
~—.f 
1923.] St. Thomas and San Thomé, Mylapore. 195 
but that in the kingdom of Columbo, which was known in the 
West as a ape hig station, there was a Christian Prince at the 
town of Dio 
Tn the ae form in which Yule od en ay part of the 
Catalan Map (1375) from Notices et Extrai tom..: EV,” 
Columbo is placed wrongly by the author of ve map on the 
Fishery Coast, and the word Columbo is written a second 
pee across the territory with the note: ‘Christian Kingdom ’ 
e has, however, suppressed the flag with the dove and the 
aq as also the double cross near Diogil. The town Diogil is 
much too far north in Yule’s map to be identifiable with 
Diamper in Malabar. In fact, Yule identifies it with Deogiri 
or Daulatabad,* and it is quite possible that there were Chris- 
tians peers some time before 5 
must remark also that above Mirapore (Mylapore), 
Butifilis (the. Mutfili of Marco Polo, i.e. Motapallé in 'Yelingana), 
Bangala (Bengal), and Bassia, Yule’s reduced form of the 
Catalan Map has the following strange legend: ‘ Here reigns 
[King] Stephen, a Liembciegee In this land lies St. Thomas. 
Look for the city Butifilis 
o not know whether ce last legend has ever been com- 
mented on by any one, or what explanation of it can be de- 
vised, except perhaps that the Christians of the Coromandel. 
Coast had till very late times a chief or captain of their own 
I find nothing to ‘help in Yule’s Cathay and Marco Polo, or in 
the early travellers. However fanciful the position or the very 
existence of King Stephen’s dominions may appear to us now— 
ae they sais si i shrine of St. Thomas at Mylapore—we 
p an open mind and believe that the author of the 
raat Map, like +09 historian, would have written nothing 
for which he had not some sort of authority, either in books 
Father A. Stockman, S.J., treating Mar John III.’s visit to 
tome as mythical, opines that his journey cannot have been 
the origin of the Prester John oe 6 As his reasons do not 
appear to us cogent, we quote Yule. 
' W. Germann, op. cit, pp. 205-206. 
? Cf. Yule’s Cathay, at "This end of Vol. I. 
5 Ibid., 1. COXXX ; If, 413, 415. [Thomas’ shrine. 
+ By some mistake Butifilis see ape, made here the site of St. 
® Encycl. Britann., ae eee 716, ‘cok 2 
8 Cath. Eneycl., XIV 
