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 three, smallest and least important of the lesser Eastern Churches, may be dismissed with shorter descriptions. The Abyssinian Church is really a province of the Monophysite Church of Egypt, sharing its heresy and imitating its customs. The Jacobites are the Monophysites of Egypt, a kind of poor relations of the Copts, never more than a comparatively small and scattered sect. The Malabar people, the one existing remnant of Nestorian missions, have wavered between Nestorians and Monophysites. Their chief interest is their re-union with Rome in the 16th century; so that they will occupy a greater place in the volume about the Uniates. This part, then, contains sketches of these three Churches.