Jesus In India — Page 162
152 JESUS IN INDIA by our Jesuit Father, and by several other Europeans, long before I visited Kachemire. EXTRACT II A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern Part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Perisa, and into Russia by the Caspian-Sea, by George Forster, vol. II (R. Faulder and Son, London 1808) Page 20. On first seeing these people in their own coun- try, I imagined, from their garb, the cast of countenance, which is long, and of a grave aspect, and the form of their beards, that I had come amongst a nation of Jews. EXTRACT 12 The Races of Afghanistan, being a Brief Account of the Principal Nations Inhabiting that Country, by Surgeon-Major H. W. Bellew, C. S. I. (Thacker, Spink & Co. Calcutta, (1880) MDCCCLXXX) Page 15. The traditions of this people refer them to Syria as the country of their residence at the time they were carried away into captivity by Bukhtunasar (Nebuchadnezzar), and planted as colonists in different parts of Persia and Media. From these positions they, at some subsequent period, emigrated eastward into the mountainous country