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378 purple silk robe"; his poorer rival had "a long white garment" and a turban. Buchanan, in 1806, found the bishop in dark red silk. It does not appear that there is any strict rule about his dress. Their vestments are simply those of the Jacobites (see pp. 344-345), but with Latin additions (bishops wear a mitre, etc.). And all their rite is Jacobite too. Mr. Howard describes their holy liturgy, and prints the whole text with six anaphoras; they are the Jacobite ones of St. James, St. Peter, the Twelve Apostles, St. Dionysius, St. Xystus and John of Haran. Their pronunciation of Syriac appears to be curious, as one would expect in people who talk Malayalam. Mr. Howard gives two specimens of their singing, the Trisagion and a cadence he heard on Palm Sunday. Both are diatonic, so I suspect that his European ear has rather misled him. They accompany their chant with clashing cymbals and ringing bells. For the rest of the practices of the Jacobites of Malabar, for their calendar, fasts, and so on, we may refer to those of all Jacobites.

FIG. 14. — A MALABAR BISHOP.

Mr. Howard ends his account with words which I gladly transcribe here. "From the day when it was first planted in Malabar the gospel has ever done its work in pious souls. In many a village, such as Chattanoor, Kayencolum, and others, remote from the scenes of strife, men and women have lived quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness and honesty, and in faithful dependence on their Redeemer. In the Church of Travancore,