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parts of India and I never heard it spoken of except by one 
not deem it worth relating to his friends in France, where such 
a story would, however, have excited no small interest. Did 
Father Bouchet include it among the many suspicious things 
which he had heard or read ? 
exception of Bruton, all describe the temple from hearsay. It 
would not, however, be surprising if other European versions 
of the story were in existence. We have heard of an English 
burglar, of a French Jogi, of a long-armed, light-fingered Portu- 
guese, and of a jeweller belonging to no particular nationality. 
The variant of a Dutch robber might yet turn up. Or were 
the Dutch above suspicion ? : 
We have still to consider some of the Indian accounts. 
ul Fazl says nothing in his description of the temple of 
Pari about diamonds in the eyes of t ei 
and its dependenci 
Stewart writes, 
1 Cf. Lettres édif. 
The italics are mine. 
2 Cf. Ain, Vol. IT, Col. Jarrett’s tr 
’ Exuior’s Hist. of India, V, 511 
* Ibid., VI, 36. 
5 Ibid., VI, 86-87. 
anslation, pp. 116,- 128. 
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