Vol. Mar No. 10.] Tibetan MS. Vocabularies by Capuchins. 389 
8. 
The Brahman Balgobinda, the Fathers’ professor in the 
vernacular languages, had a Newari epitaph eut on his tomb- 
stone, to this effect : ‘ In the year 865 [Newari era], Akha cycle 
the 8th, on the 6th moon of the month Agan, the renowned 
Faranghi Father Franciscus Horatius, who stayed 33 years in 
‘those parts, preaching the most high Law of God, finally died 
in the city of Patan.’’ 
His Lirerary WORKS. 
‘Father Orazio della Penna applied himself during more 
than four years to the study of Tibetan, both the common 
and the literary language, and mastered it to perfection, 
gs 
which were used, as I said, to compose the work of Georgi, he 
wrote a rather-important Memoir entitled ‘‘ Breve Notizia 
In 1738, Orazio wrote an account of the Capuchin Mission 
to Lhasa under the title ‘‘ Relazione del principio e 
presente della Missione del vasto regno del gran Tibet, ed aliré 
due regni conjinanti, raccommandata alla vigilanza e zelo de’ 
AOA 0 PPR gE OMEN eta aeemeanne ee 

Miss. Allahabad, Materialia, n° 11, 1745.—Anal. Ord.. vol. XXI, 
Nov. 1905, p. 344, ann. 1712.—J/bid., * Series Prefectorum, ann. 1721 
& 1738.—Beticatri’s Memorie, c. X, p. 46. 
1 Acta S.C.P.F., vol. 112, ann. 1738, fol. 49, n. 4. 
2 Il Tibet, op. cit., pp. liv —lv. 
8 h. p- 
4 Nouveau Journal Asiutique, 2¢ série, xiv, p.177. An English 
translation may be found in C. R. Markuam’s Tibet, Bogle and Man- 
ning. A French translation was inserted in the Nouvelle Bibliothéque ou 
l’ Histoire littéraire, tom. X1V, and in the Histoire générale des Voyages 
tom. VII, Paris, 1749. 
