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160 JESUS IN INDIA Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense. ” Mentioning gold, I must not forget, that near Samarcand there are gold mines and turquoises. Vol. 2 pages 226–227. A few words on the Chaldeans in the mountains of Kurdistaun. These Chaldeans, as the late lamented Dr. Grant well observed, are of Jewish origin, though I cannot go so far as to affirm that they are of the Ten Tribes, since they do not know their own genealogy. They are now mostly Christians. . . They resemble mostly the Protestants of Germany and England, for they have neither images nor monasteries, and their priests are mar- ried. The episcopal dignity, however, is hereditary, as well as that of the Patriarch, and at the time the mother of the patriarch becomes pregnant, she abstains from drinking wine and eating meat; and in case that a son is born, he is the patriarch, and if a daughter, she is obliged to observe eternal virginity. EXTRACT 15 The Lost Tribes and the Saxons of the East and of the West, with new Views of Buddhism, and Translations of Rock-Records in India, by George Moore, M. D. (Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, London {1861} MDCCCLXI) Page 143. We are attracted at once to a country of vast importance in the present aspect of the East, and the