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All this is sufficient reason for proof of the conjecture that 

 we made as to the footprint on Adam's Peak and the knee- 

 marks at the Pedreira being those of the holy apostle, who 

 wenr about filling India with miracles and wonders, of which 

 we have only the smaller part in his legend ; and in many 

 writings we find that such marks were always miraculous and 

 permitted by God. 



In a court of the Holy House in Jerusalem, which is paved 

 with beautiful slabs, in one of them are the impressions of two 

 footprints like that of which we are treating, which (according 

 to the opinion of some who have written concerning the Holy 

 Temple, and among them the father Frey Pantaleao) they 

 affirm to be those of an Abyssinian who was martyred there 

 for the faith of Christ, who thought well that some vestiges 

 should remain there as a sign of how he esteemed his martyr- 

 dom. In the Church of the Ascension, which stands on Mount 

 Olivet, is to be seen another stone with a footprint like these, 

 which our Lord Jesus Christ left there, when he ascended into 

 heaven, of the last foot that he raised. In the Garden of 

 Gethsemane (in that place where the three apostles placed 

 themselves whilst Christ prayed) is another stone, on which 

 those disciples lay, and on it are impressed the forms of the 

 bodies, as if in a little soft wax. 



Wherefore this footprint on Adam's Peak and the knee- 

 marks of which we have spoken are miraculous, and at that 

 time there went to India no one who could do such miracles 

 but this holy apostle. And having read what Dorotheus, 

 bishop of Tyre, says (and it is related by Maffei in the third 

 book of his History of India), that in this footprint on Adam's 

 Peak is venerated the memory of the eunuch of Queen Candace, 

 who, he says, went about preaching the gospel throughout the 

 whole of the Red Sea, Arabia Felix, and Taprobana, we cannot 

 discover whence that learned man could have inferred this, 

 since it is not said in any writing that this eunuch left 

 Abyssinia, of which he was a native. And we made diligent 

 inquiry throughout India, and spoke with many ancient and 

 learned Moors, heathen, and even Jews, and in no part of it is 

 there any knowledge or tradition of this eunuch. 



And to conclude with these matters of Ceilao, we shall do 

 so briefly with one that to us is very wonderful, which is," 

 that all the trees that stand around the foot of this Adam's 

 Peak, and even those more than half a league distant from it, 

 all in every part make with their boughs an inclination towards 

 the mountain, all having very straight trunks as far as where 

 the branches begin, without any wind causing them to change 1 . 



Valentyn adds : " this must have some reason." 



