ABSTRACT
From the Latin manuscript with the title Tibetorum ac eorum Relatio Fiarumy dated January 28, 1722, in the Biblioteca Vittorio Emanuele, Rome. (Gesuitico 1384, No. 32.)
REPO RT ON T IB E T AND ITS RO U TES
On the twenty-fourth of September, the Fea& of Our Lady of Mercy, of the Year of our Redemption 17 14 , the Reverend Father Hyppolitus and myself took leave of the city of Dyli [Delhi], and in seventeen days arrived at Lahor [Lahore], Having left this place and crossed its river, which is called the R&vi, in four days we arrived at a place called Little Guzarat [Lesser Gujarat, Ahmahabad], It is known as “ little99 to distinguish it from Great Guzarat [Gujarat the Great] which is next to Cambaya [Cambay], This Little Guzarat is at the foot of the Caucazi [Caucasus, see Note 15 , Book 7] mountains, in the region where some geographers, more especially among the French, have placed the city of Cazimir [Kashmir or Srinagar], But to reach Cazimir from the foot of the rocks took us fourteen days; and moreover we climbed some precipitous mountains, which frightened us greatly.
