aes 
ie. 
1923. ] St. Thomas and San Thomé, Mylapore. 201 
We believe that we have no equal, either for the quantity 
of our riches or the number of our subjects. en we issue 
forth to make war upon our enemies, we cause to be carried 
before our face, each on a ear, thirteen great precious crosses 
made of gold and precious stones.! Each cross is followed by 
ten thousand horsemen and a hundred thousand armed foot 
soldiers, without counting those who are in charge of the carts 
conveying the baggage and provisions of the army. [P. 492}. 
When we go out merely on horseback. our majesty i is preceded 
by another cross without either gold or precious stones or 
picture,’ in order that we may alw ays remember the Passion 
of Our Lord Jesus Christ ; and there is also a golden vessel full 
of earth, in order to remind us that our body will return to 
its native origin, that is the earth; and another vessel, of 
silver, and filled with gold, is carried before us, that all may 
understand that we are Lord of Lords. Our magnificence 
o a the riches in the world, ete. 
y year we visit the body of the prophet St. Daniel 
in Seberind Babylon,® and all are armed on account of the 

For the real truth is that the Salamander is no beast, as they ame in 
the 
our part o — but is a substance found in the earth.” Thi 
asbestos. ‘‘ I cannot tell, says Yule, when the fable arose that cenit 
was a substance ae from a animal.’ 
When Friar James, one of the martyrs of Thana (Salsette near 
Bombay), was cast into “the fire ee would not burn, the Cadi cried out: 
is no saint! he is no saint! But the rea “— why he is not burnt is 
that he hath on his back a garment from the land of Abraham. here- 
ere oP him = stript naked and so cast into the fire!”’ Cf. Yule’s Cathay, 
8 
at a es of Naiam, when he rebelled — laced was 
ae by across. (Marco Polo, lib. II, ch. 6.)” ayard, op. cit., 
2 By y picture is probably meant a a cope nit pt Bacon of the 
crucified Saviour. The Nestorians of Chi we ow, would not 
tolerate otucifites: and the Emperors of China ‘showed ¢ recat inka aston- 
ished when the medieval Franciscans oe i crucifixes mpraite them 
ition, the dt Dail preserved 
amongst the ruins of Susa, or in the ve of the Bakhtiyart mountains. 
We have no other mention of its existence at Babylon Layard, 
i ; ie 
“Dur e Middle Ages there was a wi vero. and ee oe 
tradition that "pahier was buried at Susa, the modern Shuster gine 
it is shown there to Ae present day e Roman Martyrology ass 
Daniel’s feast as a oly prophet to oi July, = 'apparently treats Dale. 
lon 4 his Durlal piace " Cath. Eneycl., 1V.6 
mani. (Bibl Orientalis, Vol. 1V DECLXXS!) saleg S$ Susa ; 
ss “Toi corpus Danielis Prophetae jacere a rmant Abulpheda ( b 1 ih 
me ee Nisibenus s (Tom. 3, p. 306), et Gregorius Abulphar- 
ais (Histor. Dynast., p. 54).’ 
