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ADDITIONAL NOTES. 
While this hate was going through the press, it was but 
natural that many new passages should come in my way, which 
might have been mae use of to elucidate my subject. In 
Calcutta, in January 1923.1 found much curious material in 
John de Mandeville’s book of wonders, a veritable hotch- -potch 
ot old and new, real and unreal aeikinhad and borrowed, in pro- 
portions to me unverifiable. Then during a journey to the 
South, which brought me back to Mylapore and Trichinopoly, 
certain things struck me as worthy of record. These results 
are embodied in these further notes, and the headings ai 
readily enable the reader to see their connection with the s 
ject of my paper. 
PS Abe. No fly sits on hell meat at the place where 
St. Thomas was first buried.—Sir John de Mandeville has 
something more or less to the same effect in connection yar 
the Convent of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai: Ch. 5[P 
“In that Abbey entereth no fly, neither Toads nor Newts. nor 
such fowl venomous Beasts, neither Lice nor Fleas, by the 
Miracle of God and of our Lady. For there were wont to be so 
many such manner of [P. 74] Filths, that the Monks were in 
Will to leave the Place and the Abbey, and were gone from 
forwards never entered such Filth i in that Place amongst them, 
nor never shall enter hereafter.’ 
st Constable’s edition, 1895. Have these remarks also 
copied from big pee ‘of Boldensele, and are they to be 
found in Schiltberg 
OS. 2. The bes at St. Thomas’ tomb not extinguished 
by Psi wind.—A similar notion prevailed in England in the 
Middle Ages with regard to lamps within tombs. I find in 
Mores Catholici, or Ages of Faith, by H. Kenelm Digby, Vol. }, 
New York, Jonee Bros., 1905, p. 811 :— 
den and Weave: relate that, at the suppression 
and demolition 8 the abbeys in York, ‘burning lamps were 
found in many tombs the flame ‘ which it was said could not 
be extinguished by wind or wate 
is practice seems to ont greatly struck the poetic 
imagination of the Minstrel, who has so grandly described the 
Abbaee opening of the grave of Michael Scott in Melrose 
Lo, warrior! now the cross of 
Points to the grave of the Sate dead ; 
