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CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA, ETC.
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118 CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA, ETC. find traces of Christianity at a later period. The great conqueror Temoutchin having dispersed and absorbed the nation of the Keraites, the kingdom of Prester John disappeared, and existed no more, except in the imagi- nations of Europeans. The travellers from the West, during the Middle Ages, continued, nevertheless, to seek for this remarkable potentate with eager curiosity, and whenever they met with a prince professing Christianity, though it might be in India or Abyssinia, never failed to declare they had found Prester John.