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the Prophet St. Daniel in deserted Babylon, [P. 594] about the 
palace said to have been built by St. Thomas for Gondophorus, 
ing of the Indians. all this is supported by the common tradi- 
tion of the Nestorians, as I have shown at pp. 30, 34, 356. 
Finally, the large number of his wives shows that these Tartar 
Kings who had embraced Christianity were perhaps Christians 
in name only. Abulpharagius, as I shall show anon, writes the 
same of his son John.’ 
The passages of Prester John’s Jetter left unpublished by 
Assemani are briefly as follows. All the wild beasts and mon- 
strous creatures commemorated in current legend were to be 
found in Prester John’s dominions, as well as all the wild and 
eccentric races of men of whom strange stories were told, in- 
cluding those unclean nations whom Alexander Magnus walled 
up among the mountains of the north, and who were to 
come forth at the latter day.2_ His dominions contained the 

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Apostolical. If that is correct, the name would not have been a bad one 
for a King of the St. Thomas Christians in Malabar. But did King 
Chhanggan, i.e. Singanfu in Shensi) can read in Theophylactus- 
Simocatta, a Byzantine writer of the early part of the 7th century. See 
Yule’s Cathay, I (1866), pp. 1--li. : 
he gold-digging ants are an old story already found in Strabo, 
y ian, Dion Chrysostom, and Pseudo-Kallisthenes. Cf. M‘*Crindle 
Ancient India (Index), and see pp. 44-45, n. 3, for an explanation of 
the myth, and p. 51, n. 1, for a fuller list of the authors who have noticed 
the gold-digging ants. There we find still Herod., Arrian, Clem. Alex., 
Tzetz., Propert., Pomp. Mela, Isidor., Albert. Mag., etc., etc. 
