In The Last Case, Indeed, He Shows A Rare Sign Of Independence, For He Does Not, With Hetoum, End His History Of The Sultanate About 1300, But Carries It Onto The Death Of En-Nasir (1341), And Names Two Of His Successors.

Although his statements about them are not historically accurate, this fact and a few other details suggest that he

May really have been in Egypt, if not at Jerusalem, but the proportion of original matter is so very far short of what might be expected that even this is extremely doubtful."

With this final quotation, we may take leave of John of Mandeville, alias John a Beard.

H.C.

[1] "The raphia, here called the 'Devil's date,' is celebrated as having the largest leaf in the vegetable Kingdom," etc. In his translation of Lacerda's journey he calls it Raphia vinifera.

[2] MANDEVILLE, Jehan de [By Edward Byron Nicholson, M.A., and Colonel Henry Yule, C.B.] Ext. from the Encyclopaed. Britan. 9th ed., xv. 1883, ppt. 4to., pp. 4.

[3] Encyclop. Brit. xv. p. 473.

[4] British Museum, Harley, 4383, f. 1 verso.

[5] Les Voyages en Asie an XIV'e siecle du Bienheureux frere Odoric de Pordenone. Paris, 1891, p. cxvi.

[6] Bibliographische Untersuchungen ueber die Reise-Beschreibung des Sir John Maundeville. - Dem Herrn Samuel Gottfried Reiche, Rector und Professor des Gymnasiums zu St. Elisabet in Breslau und Vice-Praeses der Schlesischen Gesellschaft fuer Vaterlaendische Cultur, Ritter des rothen Adlerordens, zur Feier Seines Amts-Jubelfestes am 30.

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