authority of the white Jews and of their king; and a war was the consequence, in which the latter were almost destroyed. They were, however, assisted by the prince of the country, and the black Jews were again reduced to obedience. After that period the black and white Jews had distinct synagogues, and lived apart from each other. Two brothers of the royal race ruled in common; but they afterwards separated, and the native princes raised a violent persecution against the Jews. They were so much oppressed by the Portuguese at Cranganor, that they were obliged, in 1565, to solicit the protection of the king of Cochin, near which city they still reside. The ancient royal race, and the descendants of those who went to India before the year 1371, are totally extinct. The white Jews, who reside near Cochin at present, went to India at later periods, from Palestine, Persia, Constantinople, Bagdad and Egypt, and even from England, Poland, Germany, Spain and Holland. The black Jews are the descendants of the ancient race above mentioned. Their books are according to the Spanish ritual, and they procure them from Amsterdam. They have nine synagogues, and consist of about 460 families, who amount perhaps to 3000 or 4000 persons. _F._ [62] A full account of the migration, incursions, wars, revolutions, laws and manners of those foreign nations who established themselves in India, may be seen in the writings of _Hyde_, _Texeira_, _Renaudot_, _Barros_, the _Abbe Guyon_, _Raynal_, _St. Lubin_, _Anquetil du Perron_, and in the lives of _Tamerlane_ and _Thamas Kuli Khan_; also in the Persian books _Vakiat-Babri_, _Monte-Keb-el-Tarik_, _Akbar Nama_, and _Magir-Gehan Guiri_, which are to be found partly in the library at Paris, and partly in that of Mr. Samuel Guise. _A._