Borders, implying, that in the year 636, the
Nestorians had sent Olopuen into China to propagate the gospel; and
that the emperor Tai-sum-ven had approved this step, and allowed the
Christian religion to be propagated through all China, with many other
particulars relative to the history of Christianity in China. This
stone bore to have been erected in 782 by Mar Isdabuzzid, priest, and
Chorepiscopus of Cumdan, the royal city of the east, now Nankin. See a
dissertation on this monument, following Renaudet's translation of the
two Mahometan travellers, London, 1788, p. 76. - E.
[5] Mani or Manes is named Thenaoui by the oriental Christians, and the
sect of Manicheans they call Al-Thenaouib, or those who hold the
doctrines of the two principles. These Tuinians, therefore, of
Rubruquis, are probably the Manicheans. - Forst.
SECTION XXIX.
Of Cailac, and the Country of the Naymans.
We departed from the city of Cailac on St Andrew's day, 30th of November,
and in three leagues we found a village of Nestorians, where we went into
their church, and sang salve regina, and other hymns, with great joy. In
three days after we came to the entrance of that province, not far from the
before mentioned sea, which seemed as tempestuous as the ocean, and in
which we saw a large island.
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[4] Singan, or Singan-fu in the province of Shensee. In the year 1625, a
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