Purchas, His Pilgrimes, 3rd Pt., London, 1625 : « and, O that it were possible to doe as much for our Countriman Mandeuil, who next (if next) was the greatest Asian Traueller that euer the World had, & hauing falne amongst theeues, neither Priest, nor Leuite can know him, neither haue we hope of a Samaritan to releeue him ».
Astley (IV, p. 620) : « The next Traveller we meet with into Tartary, and the Eastern Countries, after Marco Polo, is Friar Odoric, of Udin in Friuli, a Cordelier ; who set-about the Year 1318, and at his Return the Relation of it was drawn-up, from his own Mouth, by Friar William of Solanga, in 1330. Ramusio has inserted it in Italian, in the second Volume of his Collection ; as Hakluyt, in his Navigations,has done the Latin, with an.English Translation. This is a most superficial Relation, and full of Lies ; such as People with the Heads of Beasts, and Valleys haunted with Spirits : In one of which he pretends to have entered, protected by the 'Sign of the Cross ; yet fled for Fear, at the Sight of a Face that grinned at him. In short, though he relates some Things on the Tartars and Manci (as he writes Manci) which agree with Polo's Account ; yet it seems plain, from the Names of Places and other Circumstances, that he never was in those Countries, but imposed on the
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