It was easy for an imagination like his to be wrought upon so as to give to "airy nothings," to the "thousand phantasies that crowd into the memory," the character of special revelations from heaven.

In this very despatch his religious fervour is displayed again and again.

Jerusalem, according to the prophecy, was to be rebuilt by the hand of a Christian.

He would be that Christian.

Prester John, so said tradition, had asked for missionaries to instruct him in the true faith.