384 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1912. 
of numbers used by the Buddhists or their manner of symboli- 
cally expressing numbers. 
III. Besides these Tibetan lexicons, there is an Italian- 
Hindi vocabulary, the work of another Capuchin Friar. 
Newari. The Hindi script has a Newari look, and I at first 
thought that it was Italian to Newari. But the words are mostly 
Hindi.’’ This MS. measuring 93” x 63” contains 350 unpum- 
bered pages, each divided in two columns, having 25 or 26 
lines to a page, and in each column we have the Italian and 
Hindi words till page 33, where the first column gives the 
Italian only and the other the Hindi equivalent. On the first 
page of this MS. we read: ‘‘ B. Latter,’’ written by an English 
hand. The third page of thedictionary begins with A propozione 
wi. At the end of this lexicon is an appendix comprising 18 
principal towns, and important personages met with in Hindu 
books and calling fora more detailed explanation. The heading 
of it is as follows: ‘* Nomi propri, e significativi che si trovano 
né libri dei gentili dell’ Indostano, disposti per lettere di Alfa- 
beto.’” It begins with ‘‘Abebe: a brama ”: and ends with 
‘‘Uvia.’’ These words have been arranged in alphabetic order. 
found in the same box as the MSS., copies of which letters 
are given below, we learn that early in the nineteenth century, 
Major Latter collected at great cost in India, and particularly 
Bettiah a copy of an Italian-Tibetan dictionary prepared by the 
Roman Catholic Mission. This Mission laboured for 27 years 
1707 to 1745 with two intervals of 4 and 6 years, and then 
was expelled from Tibet in 1745, when the Capuchins retired 
to Bettiah with some Nepalese Christians, and settled at 
in the Roman Catholic College at Patria [Patna ?], and which 
he eventually got possession of. In the year 1824, Mrs. 
Latter, mply with her deceased husband’s wish, 
presented to the Bishop’s College Library, Calcutta, all the 
