es 
cern 1895 
1923. ] Si. Thomas and San Thomé, Mylapore. 219 
asked for the meaning of the hand, and had been told that it 
was a symbol of evangelisation, whereupon I suggested that, 
if His Lordship had pressed hard for an answer to the question, 
f bein bib Seeart ns ?” the answer might have been “ Of 
St Thom ssibly, the Malabar Christians would swear 
by the hand ae ‘wis cross above the pulpit in their churches, 
or lay in the hand their bills of contention, call it St. Thomas’ 
hand, and, when asked for further explanation, relate the story 
of St. Thomas’ hand, which would not hide itself in the tomb 
at Mylapore. Later on, when the pulpit and the emblem at 
Mylapore had disappeared, they would say that the hand had 
disappeared in the grave, because the Chinese, or some Hindu, 
or Muhammadan prince wanted to cut (?) off. 
eka ae — ie toes of Seyi hee ingots oA ded 
rela is also. found earlier in de Mandeville, chs. 5 and 7. 
Ch. 72] “ Also, when the Prelate of the Abbey [of 
St. Gathering 8, ssi Sinai] is dead I [P. 73] have understood, 
by Information, that his Lamp quencheth. And when they 
shall die. For when any one shall die, the Light beginneth to 
change and to wax dim; and if he be eee to be Prelate, 
and is not worthy, his Lamp quencheth an 
AM. : ‘And there is a jai that hangeth 
before the Sepulchre fof Our Lord at Jerusalem], that burneth 
alight, and on the Good Friday it goeth out by bimself, 
and lighteth ace se himself at that Hour that Our Lord rose 
from Death to L 
e quotation are from Constable’s edition of de 
the lines of the itinerary of the German knight William of 
Boldensele, written in 1336 at the desire of Cardinal Talleyrand 
de Perigord, and published in the Thesaurus of Canisius, 1604, 
V. pt. I, p._95, and in the edition of the same by Basnage, 
1725, IV, 337. 
The Darjeeling Advertiser, July 4, 1923, gives an account of 
a book, Men, Beasts and oo published by Edward Arnold, in 
which the author, @ Russian, Dr. Ferdinan id Ossendowski, who 
