[Footnote 2: The khans of the Keraites were most probably
incapable of reading the pompous epistles composed in their
name by the Nestorian missionaries, who endowed them with
the fabulous wonders of an Indian kingdom. Perhaps these
Tartars (the Presbyter or Priest John) had submitted to the
rites of baptism and ordination, (Asseman, Bibliot Orient
tom. iii. p. ii. p. 487- 503.)]