i, os aaa 
1923. ] St. Thomas and San Thomé, Mylapore. 225 
territorium _producit igne abluendam telam, revocans animam 
aroma, claritatis }unaris uniones, noctuque ‘radiantes gemmias. 
Mores pees ocinio furtoque; populus fruitur gaudio paceque. 
ig arvétés Sinologiques, No. 20; La Sté'e chrétienne de 
Si-ngan-fou, III® partie, par le P. Henri Havret, S. J., Chang- 
Hai, Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique, Orphelinat de T‘ou- 
sé- we, 1902, p 457, col. 
e o's above represent a Chinese character i in the stéle. 
Af p. 59, ibid. it is said of Kien-tchong: “ Face praeest 
ibd ee secretioribus, speczlo intuelur rerum varietates.’ 
not the last expression, “speculo intuetur rerum 
ViiiStiiten ’ echoed by the mirror in which Prester John 
could discern everything that went on in his dominions, and 
detect conspiracies 2 
P. 206. 20. Sir John de Mandeville quoting Prester John’s 
letter. “yer after H. Yule’s note of warning in the Encyclo- 
paedia Britannica, Vol XV, pp 473-475 (9th edition), my 
ideas of Sir John de Mandeville received a severe shock when I 
caught him copying whole passages from Prester John’s letter. 
In ch, 27, hes Constable’s edition, 1895, we read : 
[P. 3 38.) “For in this Country [of Prester John, divided 
into 12 ptosis] | is the Sea that Men call the Gravelly Sea 
that is all Gravel and Sand, without any Drop of water, and it 
ebbeth and floweth in great Waves as other Seas do, and it is 
never still nor at Peace, in any manner of Season. And no 
an may pass that Sea by Ship, nor by any manner of Craft, 
and therefore may no Man know what Land is beyond that 
Sea. And albeit that it have no Water, yet Men find therein and 
on the Banks full good Fishes of other manner of Nature and 
Shape, that Men find in any other Sea, and they be right good 
caste and ies for Man’s Meat. 
n 3 Days’ journey long from that Sea be gre 
Miia oht of which goeth out a great [P 341] River that 
cometh out of Paradise. And it is full of precious Stones, 
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River runneth, also, 3 Days in the Week and bringeth wee him 
great Stones and the Rocks also therewith, and that great 
Plenty. And anon, as they be entered into the Gray ely Sea, 
they be seen no more, but lost for evermore. And in those 
! The number 12 pieys : : great part in Mandeville’s account of China 
o it does in n Odoric’s and Marco Polo’s. According to ' Mandel 
Caydon in Cathay had 12 gates, and between every two gates there was 
ways @ great mile (Ch. 20, p. 365). 
