Had
enjoined.[NOTE 1] The Legate giving them leave, they went from Acre to
Jerusalem and got some of the Oil, and then returned to Acre, and went to
the Legate and said to him: "As we see no sign of a Pope's being made, we
desire to return to the Great Kaan; for we have already tarried long, and
there has been more than enough delay." To which the Legate replied:
"Since 'tis your wish to go back, I am well content." Wherefore he caused
letters to be written for delivery to the Great Kaan, bearing testimony
that the Two Brothers had come in all good faith to accomplish his charge,
but that as there was no Pope they had been unable to do so.
NOTE 1. - In a Pilgrimage of date apparently earlier than this, the Pilgrim
says of the Sepulchre: "The Lamp which had been placed by His head (when
He lay there) still burns on the same spot day and night. We took a
blessing from it (i.e. apparently took some of the oil as a beneficent
memorial), and replaced it." (Itinerarium Antonini Placentini in
Bollandists, May, vol. ii. p. xx.)
["Five great oil lamps," says Daniel, the Russian Hegoumene, 1106-1107
(Itineraires russes en Orient, trad.
