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0200 Southern Tibet : vol.1
南チベット : vol.1
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CHAPTER XV.

FRIAR ODORIC. — SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE.

Friar Odoric is the first European who has ever visited Tibet Proper and
even Lhasa, and still his description of the country is very meagre if compared
with the information brought back by Marco Polo. From Cathay he travelled
several day's journey westwards through many countries and cities. Thus he came
to the country of Prester John called Penthexoire with the capital Cosan. From this
province he came to another called Cossam with the capital Cassam, which was one
of the twelve provinces of the Great Kaan.

The scholars who have tried to make out this route, Yule, Klaproth, Pau-
thier, and Cordier, have not, as could be expected from such scanty material, been
successful. According to Cordier the religious traveller went from Peking towards the
country of Tangut, passing through Kan-su.

Wherever his Cossam may have been situated, he travelled from there to
another very great province which has the name Riboth and borders upon India.
Of this kingdom, Tibet, he says: ¹

Cel royaume est subgiet au grant Caan, et y treuve-on pain et vin en très plus grant
habondance que en nulle part du monde. Les gens de ce pais demeurent en tentes de fuerre
noir. Leur maistre cité est moult belle, toute de blanche pierre, et les rues bien pavées. Elle
est appellée Gota. En ceste cité nul n'ose espandre sang humain, ne aussi de quelconque beste
pour la révérence d'un ydole qu'on y adoure. En ceste cité demeure l'obassy, c'est à dire leur
pape en leur langaige. Il est chief de tous les ydolatres et donne les benefices du pays à
sa guise.²