militis Mandauil per Indiam."--HENRI CORDIER, _Odoric
de Pordenone_, p. lxxii. and p. lxxv.

[32] _Purchas, His Pilgrimes_, 3rd Pt., London, 1625: "and, O that it
were possible to doe as much for our Countriman Mandeuil, who next (if
next) was the greatest Asian Traueller that euer the World had, &
hauing falne amongst theeues, neither Priest, nor Leuite can know him,
neither haue we hope of a Samaritan to releeue him."

[33] _Astley_ (iv. p. 620): "The next Traveller we meet with into
_Tartary_, and the Eastern Countries, after _Marco Polo_, is Friar
_Odoric_, of _Udin_ in Friuli, a _Cordelier_; who set-about the Year
1318, and at his Return the Relation of it was drawn-up, from his own
Mouth, by Friar _William_ of _Solanga_, in 1330. _Ramusio_ has
inserted it in _Italian_, in the second Volume of his Collection; as
_Hakluyt_, in his Navigations, has done the _Latin_, with an _English_
Translation. This is a most superficial Relation, and full of _Lies_;
such as People with the Heads of Beasts, and Valleys haunted with
Spirits: In one of which he pretends to have entered, protected by the
Sign of the Cross; yet fled for Fear, at the Sight of a Face that
grinned at him. In short, though he relates some Things on the
_Tartars_ and _Manci_ (as he writes _Manji_) which agree with _Polo's_
Account; yet it seems plain, from the Names of Places and other
Circumstances, that he never was in those Countries, but imposed on
the Public the few Informations he had from others, mixed with the
many Fictions of his own. He set out again for the East in 1331; but
warned, it seems, by an Apparition a few Miles from _Padua_, he
returned thither, and died." And a final blow in the index: "_Oderic,
Friar, Travels of_, iv. 620 a. _A great liar!!_"

[34] E.B. Nicholson.--Letters to the _Academy_, 11th November, 1876;
12th February, 1881. E.B.N. and Henry Yule, MANDEVILLE, in
_Encyclopaedia Britannica_, 9th ed., 1883, pp. 472-475.

[35] Die ungedruckten Lateinischen Versionen Mandeville's. (Beilage zum
Programm des Gymnasiums zu Crefeld.) 1886.

[36] Untersuchungen ueber Johan von Mandeville und die Quellen seiner
Reisebeschreibung. Von Albert Bovenschen. (_Zeitschrift d. Ges. fuer
Erdkunde zu Berlin_, XXIII. Bd., 3 u. 4 Hft. No. 135, 136, pp.
177-306.)

[37] (1) Itinerarivm // per nonnv. las // Galliae Belgicae partes