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[English Translation] embroidery, they have only a cross of crimson silk with the figure of a palm and an olive tree, the surpelis has a cross in front and behind of crimson and violet silk, the hat of the same color with a cord of crimson violet silk, without any gold or silver to distinguish them from among the Bishops. =========================== Of the making of the Temples of Idols in which divine service is now celebrated. CHAP. V. The Temples which were dedicated to the service of false Gods according to the wealth of the places were very magnificently made with porticos and all sorts of ornaments, their shape being in an oval of some hundred, or one hundred and fifty feet wide, and the length in proportion with some one hundred and fifty feet high, covered with carpentry of cedars and firs tied by cuts in such a way that although the space is large, no fault ever occurs, and if it were not for the fear I have of straying too far from my principal subject I would write the manner at greater length, which |
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