388 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (November, 1912. 
March 11, 1739, on three different ships. The narrative of this 
journey was ee by ge a Beligatti, and the MS. of 
203 octavo pages was discover y Professor Alberto Mag- 
naghi, who faked it at Binesicas in 1902, in the fascicles of 
the Revista fein Italiana heiiat gy 
The party were not re-united until they acrited in 
Calcutta on September 23rd, sailing thence together up the 
Hugli to Chandernagore on September 26th, where they landed, 
six months and 18 days after they had embarked at Lorient. 
They reached Patna on December 16, 1739, where they met 
Fr. Giovacchino da San Anatolia. Leaving three of the breth- 
ren in Patna, a party of eight, including Giovacchino, con- 
tinued the journey towards Nepal. On February 6, 1740, they 
reached Batgao, where the ‘ king of Batgao’ welcomed them 
‘con somma famigliarita.” On October Ist, 1740, the king of 
Khatmandu allowed them to depart. They arrived at Kuti 
on the a ar frontier, on October 17, and reached Lhasa on 
January 6, 
When in vise a severe persecution broke out at Lhasa 
against the missionaries and the newly converted Tibetans, it 
was decided to reduce the staff to four and to send the other 
ra back into Nepal. Though the efforts of the mission- 
did not relent, their influence continued to wane. 
Reluctantly Orazio made up his mind that the time had arrived 
to abandon the work. The date of his departure and of the 
conclusion of the Capuchin mission in Lhasa was April 20, 
. The sad little party Sm the frontier in safety and 
reached the mission hospice at Patan in Nepal on the 4th of 
June. Some six weeks | Mice, namely on July 20, 1745, the 
broken-hearted Orazio della Penna, Prefect of the Tibet Mission, 
breathed his last, aged 65 years, 33 of which he had been a 
missionary, and 29 of which he had spent in Tibet. He was 
buried in the little Christian cemetery then existing ‘at Patan 
ih eo to the North outside the walls, and the following 
rrowful inscription in Latin was placed over his grave 
A.R.P. FRANCISCVS HORATIVS A PENNA BILLORVM 
PICENAE PROVINCI nc we oe ALVMNVS. 
<TNEIDELIVM CONVERSIONES OPTANS 
8.C.P TIBETI aia a MISSVS 
XXXII. “AN INTER INFIDELES VERSATVS 
EISDEM MISSIONIBVS PRAFVIT 
DEM 
SENIO AC ORDO, CONFECTVS ET pet CVMVLATVS 
Is 
XX. JVL 
SUPERSTITES MISSION ARI 
A. M. D. G. 
1 Pao OLINO, India Or. Christ., p. 194, Guonat, ‘adloh: 
Tib., p. 435, erroneously state that he et on ; song 20, 1747. See Arch. 
