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Jews, having the countenances and manners of the Israeli people. S. Manoutchi, a physician in the service of Emperor Aurang Zeb, corroborates Francis Bernier and states: although. we find no remains in Kashmir of the. . . Jewish religion, there are several vestiges of a race descended from the Israelites. George Foster in his famous work Letters on a Journey from Bengal to England, 1973, writes: On first seeing the Kashmirians in their own country, I imagined from their garb, the cast of their countenances, which were long and of a grave aspect, and the forms of their beards, that I had come among a nation of Jews. The Rev. Claudius Buchanan talks about the discovery of an ancient manuscript of Moses in Hebrew which was written on a roll of leather 48 feet in length and about which he was told that it was brought from Kashmir. The Kashmiri pundits claim that they had come from Persia and beyond and that some of their people had settled on the Malabar Coast. Mr. Henry Wilson in his book Travels in Himalayan Provinces writes: the physical and the ethnical character, which so sharply marks off the Kashmiris from all surrounding races, has always struck observing visitors to the valley and they have universally connected them with the Jews. Major H. W. Bellew in his book Kashmir in Kashgar refers to the dress of Kashmiri men and women and their features and infers from these and other facts their descent from the Jews. 74