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ASIATIC ETHIOPIA.
[CHAP. XII.
the inner Ethiopians. 1 The same writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. assures us that
Matthias, the successor of Judas, preached the Gospel in the
other Ethiopia, near the Apsarus and the harbour of Hyssus,
both of which are in Colchis. 2 Ambrosius and Paulinus 3 assign
nearly the same route to this Apostle, who went first to the
Ethiopians, next to the Parthians, and then to the Persians,
Medes, &c.; and Sophronius, speaking of St. Andrew, states
that he preached near the Apsarus and Phasis, which country
is inhabited by the Ethiopians, 4 so that the geography of
Asiatic Cush may be said to be determined with a reasonable
degree of certainty.
Eastern and Elsewhere it is said St. Thomas converted the Syrians Cor
western Cush. . , . ^ ^ J \
Assyrians) the Chaldeans, Parthians, Persians, Medes, and the
Hindi, or Ethiopians. 5 But Moses Choronensis is even more
explicit: for he not only indicates the early locality of the sons
of Cush, but likewise their possessions eastward of Persia
Proper, the latter being known as Kusdi Khorasan, whilst the
former kingdom was called Kusdi Nimrud. 6
Moreover, the Armenians call the Persians, and all the
Hunnish tribes within the Caspian gates, Kushanians ; 7 and the
whole tract eastward of the sources of the Araxes, or Gihon, is
expressly called Ethiopia by a remarkable Hebrew traveller
the well-known Benjamin of Tudela, who visited this part of
the world in the twelfth century, not only took notice of the
territory of Cush, but likewise of the river Gihon. 9
1 Hieronym. Catal. Script.—Ecclesiast. i.
2 In altera ^Ethiopia, ubi est irruptio Apsari et Hyssi portus.—Ibid, de
Apost. Matthia.
3 Assemani Bibli. Orient., Tome IV., p. 3.
4 Hist. Eccles., lib. I., c. xix.
5 Hieronymus; Assemani Bibli. Orient., lib. IV., c. xxv.
6 St. Martin, Memoires de 1'Armenie, Tome II., p. 392.
7 Chamchea, Index III., 195.
8 Rabbi Petachia of Ratisbon, speaking of the number of his countrymen,
says, " On compte en Babylonie plus de 600,000 Juifs, et I'Ethiopie et la
Perse en contiennent autant."—Nouveau Journal Asiatique, Tome IX., p.288.
Le pays des Alains, de meme que chez les Georgeniens ceux qui sOnt
voisins de la riviere Gihon, renferme de hautes montagnes et on y entre par
les portes de fer d'Alexandre."—Benjamin of Tudela, par Benoit, pp. 36, 37.
1573. And in another place he speaks of the descendants of those brought
to the western side of Assyria by Shalmaneser as making war with the people
of Chns Thirl r r