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? 146 and wealthy of the inhabitants prisoners to Babylon. The Israelites who had been exiled 134 years before the inhabitants of Judah, never returned. What became of them has always been, and we presume will always remain a matter of vaguest speculation’. 1 The Israelites in India It is patently clear from the aforesaid quotations that the ten tribes were lost and scattered in various countries. As my subject con- cerns only India, let us see, therefore, if we can find any trace of these lost tribes in the regions of India. Modern investigation has shown that the Afghans, Kashmiris, and the Beni Israel of Bombay are the descendants of Israel. 1. We read in the Jewish Encyclopaedia, under Tribes : Abraham Farissol identifies the river Ganges with the river Goxan and assumes that the Beni Israel of India are the descendants of the Lost Ten Tribes. A Christian traveller, Vincent of Milan, who was a prisoner in the hands of the Turks for twenty-five years, and who went as far as Fez, thence to India, where he found the River Sambation and a number of Jews dressed in silk and purple. They were ruled by seven kings, and upon being asked to pay tribute 1. Chambers. Ency. , ‘Jews. ’