Amazon.com description: Product Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879. Excerpt: ... 302 JOURNEY OF DESIDERI. Ai Table or Latittides Obsebved Oh Tue Journey.' O I If Sining 36 10 0 "Lhasa, or Barantola 29 60 Khatmandu 27 50 Hedonda 26 36 0 Batana, on Ganges 24 44 0 Benares, on Ganges 24 50 0 II. A Letter from Father Ippolito Desideri, Missionary of the Society of,7 (7is, to Father Ildebrando Grassi, a Missionary of the same Society, in the Kingdom of Mysore. (Translated from a French translation by Dm Bmlde in the ' Lettres Edifiantes,' vol. xv. p. 184.) Lhasa, April 10, 1716. Reverend Father,--The peace of our Lord be with you. Having been appointed to the Tibetan mission, I left Goa on the 20th of November, 1718, and arrived at Surat on the 4th of January, 1714. Being compelled to sojourn here awhile, I took advantage of my leisure to learn Persian. On the 26th of March I set out for Delhi, whither I arrived on the llth of May, and where I joined companv with Father Manuel Freyre, who had been appointed to the same mission as myself. On the 23rd of September we together began our journey towards Tibet. We went by way of Lahore, which we reached on the 10th of October, and where we had the pious satisfaction of administering the sacraments of repentance and the Eucharist to some Christians, who were bereft of any spiritual pastor. We loft Lahore on the 19th of October, and in the course of a few days reached the foot of the Cancasus. The Cancasus is a long range, consisting of remarkably steep and lofty mountains. After crossing one mountain you encounter a second still higher; this is in turn succeeded by a third, higher than either of the two former ones; and the farther you go the higher you climb, till you reach the highest of all, named Per-Pangial.2 1 These latitudes, according to the latest anthorities, should be as follows:--36 3...