Note 15 — Chapter XII

That the reader may not question whether the custom existed in ancient days of having National or other flags flying, for the purpose of recognition, it may be necessary to show that it was the custom. This is proved upon the authority of St. Paul, who, after his shipwreck upon the Island of Malta (i. e. Melita) and residing there three months, again set sail in an Alexandrian ship for Rome; the ensign or flag of which vessel represented the Jovian Sons of Leda. "And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the Isle, whose sign (i. e. flag or ensign) was Castor and Pollux." [Acts xxviii. 11.]—G. J.