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Citation Information
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MARCO POLO Boox III.
Christians. Indeed both it and Káyal were two out of the seven ancient churches which Indo-Syrian tradition ascribed to St. Thomas himself.*
I have been desirous to give some illustration of the churches of that interesting body, certain of which must date from a very remote period, but I have found unlooked-for difficulties in procuring such illustration. Several are given in the Life of Dr. Claudius Buchanan from his own sketches, and a few others in the Life of Bishop D. Wilson. But nearly all represent the churches as they were perverted in the 17th century and since, by a coarse imitation of a style of architecture bad enough in its genuine form. I give, after Buchanan, the old church at Parúr, not far from Cranganore, which had escaped masquerade, with one from Bishop Wilson's Life, showing the quasi-Jesuit deformation alluded to, and an interior also from the latter work, which appears to have some trace of genuine character. Parúr church is probably Pálúr, or Pózhúr, which is one of those ascribed to St. Thomas ; for Dr. Buchanan
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Ancient Christian Church at Parúr, on the Malabar coast. (After Claudius Buchanan.)
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says it bears the name of the Apostle, and ” is supposed to be the oldest in Malabar." (Christ. Res. p. 113. )
[Quilon is " one of the oldest towns on the coast, from whose re-foundation in 1019, A. D. , Travancore reckons its era." (Hunter, Gaz., xi., p. 339.)—H. C.]
How Polo comes to mention Coilum before Comari is a question that will be treated further on, with other misplacements of like kind that occur in succeeding chapters.
Kúblái had a good deal of diplomatic intercourse of his usual kind with Kaulam. De Mailla mentions the arrival at T'swan-chau (or Zayton) in 1282 of envoys from KIULAN, an Indian State, bringing presents of various rarities, including a black ape as big as a man. The Emperor had three times sent thither an officer called Yang
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