[552] Petermann, Geogr. Mittheilungen, 1868. 127.
[553] Letters addressed in 1877 to F. A. F..
[554] Bola, Bal, or Bol were names of the myrrh in the Egyptian antiquity.—Ehrenberg, De Myrrhæ et Opocalpasi ... detectis plantis, Berolini, 1841, fol.
[555] Cantic. i 13, iii. 6; Genes. xliii. 11; Exod. ii. 12, 30, xxiii. 34-36; John xix. 39; Mark xv. 23; Proverbs vii. 17.
[556] Cockayne, Leechdoms &c. of Early England, ii. (1865) 295, 297.
[557] Range, Adjurationen, Exorcismen, Benedictionen, &c., in Mittheilungen der antiquar. Gesellschaft in Zürich, xii. (1859) 187.
[558] Liber quotidianus Contrarotulatoris Garderobæ.... Edwardi I., Lond. 1787. pp. xxxii. and 27.—The custom is still observed by the sovereigns of England, and the Queen’s oblation of gold, frankincense, and myrrh is still annually presented on the Feast of Epiphany in the Chapel Royal in London.
[559] Doüet d’Arcq, Comptes de l’Argenterie des rois de France, 1851. 19.
[560] Yule, Cathay and the way thither, ii. 357.
[561] For the costly presents in question never reached their destination, having been all plundered by the way!