[521]. Austrian Court Journal, 1899.
[522]. See p. 461.
[523]. The senior author was permitted to handle these treasures in 1899.
[524]. Winckler, “Die Reichskleinodien,” Berlin, 1872, p. 17.
[525]. Ibid., p. 9.
[526]. As this pearl was brought from the East later on, it may be the same as the Reine des Perles, stolen from the French crown jewels in 1791. It is evidently the same as the La Pellegrina of the Zozima brothers (1814) and later stolen from them, reappearing as the pearl described by Kohl, in 1840, first in the possession of a Russian merchant and then later in the Russian Treasury.
[527]. “American Anthropologist,” Lancaster, Pa., Vol. IX, No. 1, Jan.–March, 1907, pp. 57–86.
[528]. “True Travels,” Richmond edition, 1819, p. 144.
[529]. Strachey, “Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia,” Hakluyt Society, London, 1849, p. 65.
[530]. Smith, op. cit., p. 130.