Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia: 1603-1721With special reference to Tibet. |
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Page 21 - ... in the greater degree to which its trough has been filled up by glacial detritus and alluvium, and has thereby approximated in appearance to a plain...
Page 66 - Frangim to teach us the holy law, take him for our chief Lama, and give him full authority to teach the holy law to our people. We shall not allow that anyone molest him in this, and we shall issue orders that he shall be given a site and all the help needed to build a house of prayer.
Page 88 - For the casual visitor if another ever visits Tsaparang. there is, or was, a solitary object from which fancy may conjure a relic of the mission. A row of whitewashed chortens stands near the Dzongpon's house. One of them, some forty feet high, towers above the rest ; and on its summit there lies horizontally a weather-beaten cross of wood. It may be that that chorten was being built while the lamas were demolishing the church close by; and that some one, carelessly, or perhaps thinking to lay up...
Page 127 - His countrey is great, and lieth not far from Cauchin China ; for they say they have pepper from thence. The port is called Cacchegate.
Page 134 - There is a country," he says, " four days journey from Cuch or Quichue, before mentioned, which is called Bootanter, and the city Booteah; the King is called Durmain, the people whereof are very tall and strong ; and there are merchants which come out of China, and they say out of Muscovia or Tartary; and they come to buy (sell ?) musk, cambals, agates, silk, pepper, and saffron of Persia. The country is very great; three months
Page 136 - ... commercial town in Thibet, is up the Valley of the Pachoo to the North-East of the Fort ; it is a perfectly level, grassy road up to the Pass below Choomalari. The distance occupies a laden porter two days, and the road is easy for pack cattle throughout. It was by this road that Turner entered Thibet. Paro from its situation should be one of the largest cities in the East ; situated in a perfectly level plain, easy of access from- the low country, surrounded by land capable of producing great...
Page 54 - Ibid., p. 51. the snowfall is almost uninterrupted; there being no fuel, travellers live on roasted barley meal, which they mix with water and drink, taking with them nothing that requires fuel to cook. According to the natives, many people die on account of the noxious vapours that arise, for it is a fact that people in good health are suddenly taken ill and die within a quarter of an hour; but I think it is rather owing to the intense cold and the want of meat, which reduce the heat of the body.1...
Page 60 - ... sources of the Ganges is curious. We all know how, in the last century, Bruce was supposed to have discovered the sources of the Nile, and how it afterwards appeared that he had been to the head, not of the great river, but of one of its tributaries. Something of the same sort may be said of the Ganges. Almost every work on the geography of India still tells us that the Ganges has its origin in the glacier, or, as it is oftener and inaccurately called, the snow-bed of Gangotri, where it issues...
Page 82 - Coresma was born in 1600, probably at San Roman, a village in the district of Tordesillas in Spain. At the age of 1 6 he entered the Society of Jesus and went to India in 1625. After his return from Tsaparang he was at the head of the college of Tanna, or Thana, on the island of Salsette. After 1641 his name is no longer found in the catalogues. In the lift for 1653, however, it is noted that F. Nonius Coresma...
Page x - Novo Descobrimento do Gram Cathayo, ou Reinos de Tibet, pello Padre Antonio de Andrade da Companhia de Jesu, Portuguez, no anno de 1624, Lisboa, 1626.