Jesus In India — Page 137
J e s u s i n I n d i a 137 of the trade carried on by the T ū rkomauns with the inhabitants of Bokhara, Khiva, and Khokand. The Prophet says: “They of the house of Togarmah (i. e. the T ū rkomauns) traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen, and mules. ” The T ū rkomauns to this day, like the Swiss Guards, are mercenaries, and let themselves out for a few tengas a day. It is also remarkable, that I frequently heard the T ū rkomauns call themselves Toghramah, and the Jews call them Togarmah. Viewing the hosts of camels coming with merchandise from Cashmeer, Cab ū l, Khokand, Khetay, and Orenbourg, the passage of Isaiah 1x. 6, comes forcibly on the mind, where the Prophet says: “The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and 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. ’ Pages 236-237. ‘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 married. 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. ’