Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 151
Chapter Eleven—Jesus Goes to India 151 to discover the long lost ten tribes of Israel. We have seen that he makes mention of a Jew at the court of Akbar; and he further says,—‘There is an old tradition, that the Jews who were led captive by Shalmaneser settled at Cashmere, and that the people of that country are the descendants of those Jews. It is certain, though we find no traces in that country of the Jewish religion, the people there being all either Gentiles or Mahomedans, that there are several ves- tiges of a race descended from the Israelites. The air of the face, and the looks of the present inhabitants, have some- thing of what is peculiar to the Jews, which distinguishes them from all other people. Moses is a very common name there; and some ancient monuments, still to be seen, dis- cover them to be a people come out of Israel. 12 In the footnote on page 291 the Rev. Hough says: Mr. Forster was so much struck with the general appear- ance, garb, and manners of the Cashmirians, as to think, without any previous knowledge of the fact, that he had 1. Hough: History of Christianity in India, vol. 2, p. 281, 288, 2. Cartou: General History of the Mogul Empire, extracted from Memoirs of M. Manouchi, p. 195–196. 2. Before relating the old tradition M. Manouchi describes the Kashmiris in these words: ‘The very people who inhabit that delightful country have nothing of the effeminacy and slothfulness of the Indians. They are robust and laborious, exercised in tilling their lands, and very brave in war. ’