[Footnote 124: Concerning the Christians of St. Thomas, see
Assemann. Bibliot Orient. tom. iv. p. 391 - 407, 435 - 451;
Geddes's Church History of Malabar; and, above all, La
Croze, Histoire du Christianisme des Indes, in 2 vols.
12mo., La Haye, 1758, a learned and agreeable work. They
have drawn from the same source, the Portuguese and Italian
narratives; and the prejudices of the Jesuits are
sufficiently corrected by those of the Protestants.]