It Does Not Seem To Me Expedient, That Any More Friars Should Be Sent To
The Tartars, In The Way I Went, Or As The Predicant Friars Go.
But if our
lord the Pope were to send a bishop in an honourable style, capable to
answer their follies, he might speak unto them as he pleased; for they will
hear whatever an ambassador chooses to speak, and always demand if he will
say any more.
But he ought to have many good interpreters, and ought to be
at large expences.
I have thus written to your highness, according to my weak power and
understanding, craving pardon from your clemency, for my superfluities or
wants, or for any thing that may be indiscreetly or foolishly written, as
from a man of little understanding, not accustomed to write long histories.
The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, preserve your heart and
fortify your mind.
[1] The reason of the change was, probably, that they might fall in with
the travelling Tartar camps, who went northwards in the summer, that
they might procure food and change of horses. In going to Mangu, he
appears to have travelled through Soongaria, and, in returning,
through the country of the Kalmaks. The river here mentioned may have
been the Borotala. - E
[2] Sarni, Saray, or Sarey, seems to have been built on the Achtuba, or
eastern branch of the Volga, near Zarewpod, where many traces of a
large town, still exist. Sumerkent is unknown, but may have been near
Astrachan, formerly named Hadschi-Aidar-Khan.
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