Vol. VIII, No. 10.] Tibetan MS. Vocabularies by Capuchins. 387 
[N.S.] 
Fr. Orazio was despatched to Nepal to open again this aban- 
doned Mission and build a hospice. Here he remained till the 
arrival of the newly appointed Prefect, Father Domenico da 
ano, who arrived in Nepal in 1716, accompanied by Fr. Felice 
da Morrodi Jesi ; after which all three started on their journey 
to Lhasa, leaving Nepal on the 4th of August of that year, 
and reaching the capital of Tibet on the Ist of October, 1716. 
Here they were heartily received by the Jesuit Father Ippolito 
Desideri. who had travelled thither by way of Kashmir, Leh 
and over the Mariam-la pass.! When Father Domenico da 
Fano renounced the superiorship of the Mission, Fr. Orazio 
was nominated in his stead Prefect of the Tibetan Mission in 
1720, though his appointment reached him only on the 15th of 
September, 1725, at Lhasa. In 1725, Orazio blessed the first 
Catholic Church built in Lhasa under the title of the Assump- 
tion of the B. V. Mary. At the opening ceremony, eleven 
Christians, mostly Newari natives of Nepal, 
Constantly the victim of serious indispositions contracted from 
the rigorous inclemencies of the Tibetan climate, his indefati- 
gable labours, infirmities, contradictions, persecutions, the dis- 
comforts of intestine wars, and other troubles which had 
reduced him to the verge of death, obliged him finally to leave 
Lhasa for the milder climate of Nepal. He left the capital of 
Tibet on the 25th August, 1732, to the great regret of King 
Mi-Vagn, who allowed him to go only on a formal promise 
Fr. 
Roman authorities the wants of his Mission, and the neces- 
lously successful with the authorities at the Vatican. Accord- 
ingly in October 1738, Orazio, in the same capacity of Prefect, 
left Rome for Paris and the East with ten Capuchin breth- 
ren. The little band of missionaries set sail from Lorient on 

1 C. Purnt, Il Tibet, etc., pp. xlix,!, lii; 7bid., Letter of Fr. Desideri, 
dated Lhasa, 15 Febr. 1717, p. 372. 

