How people used to travel the world

interest: ‘Then master William [Guillaume L”Orfvre] had made for us an
iron to make wafers
In Rubruquis”s account of Karkorum there is one passage of great
interest: ‘Then master William [Guillaume L”Orfvre] had made for us an
iron to make wafers … he made also a silver box to put the body of
Christ in, with relics in little cavities made in the sides of the box.’
Now M. Marcel Monnier, who is one of the last, if not the last traveller
who visited the region, tells me that he found in the large temple of
Erdeni Tso an iron (the cast bore a Latin cross; had the wafer been
Nestorian, the cross should have been Greek) and a silver box, which are
very likely the objects mentioned by Rubruquis. It is a new proof of the
identity of the sites of Erdeni Tso and Karkorum.–H. C.]