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But the Acts of the Saints is a publication of considerable antiquity, and he is called Beatus in the work of Asquini, already mentioned as having been published in 1787. Hakluyt, II. 142, for the Latin; II. 158, for the old English translation. Forst. Voy. and Disc. 147. The Commencement of the Travels of Oderic.
The one bookshop of Montenegro was carefully supervised by the Prince, who saw to it that the people should read nothing likely to disturb their ideas, and the literature obtainable was mainly old national ballads and the poetical works of the Prince and his father, Grand Voy voda Mirko.
We learn from this narrative, that the paper money of the former Mogul Khans of Kathay was no longer in use, and that silver money, under the same denomination of Balishes, had been substituted in its place. Astley IV. 621. Forst. Voy. and Disc. 158. I suspect this learned Dutchman has been sometimes quoted in Latin, by the name of Candidius.
Voy. ch. viii. The same has been remarked in the Rio Gallegos; and at St. "Of the cleverness of the elephant I have spoken elsewhere, and likewise of the manner of hunting.
And a thousand other fictions and absurdities, too ridiculous even for the credulity of children. Of this worse than useless performance, the foregoing analysis is perhaps more than sufficient for the present work. Forst. Voy. and Disc. in the Nerth, p. 148. Pinkert. Mod. Geogr. II. xxxvi. Hakluyt, II. 76. Itinerary of Pegoletti, between Asof and China, in 1355 .
Forster, Voy. and Disc. in the North, p. 209. Voyage and Shipwreck of Quirini. On the 25th of April 1431, Pietro Quirini set sail from Candia, steering westwards to the straits of Gibraltar; but, owing to contrary winds, he was obliged to keep near the coast of Barbary.
Forst. Hist. of Voy. and Disc. in the North, p. 113. Geographical Notices of the East in the Thirteenth Century, by Haitho. The empire of Kathay is one of the most extensive, most opulent, and most populous in the world, and is entirely situated on the sea coast.
Hence to Lubick called otherwise Lwow or Lemberg, the capital of White Russia, where he was detained by illness for three months. From that place he went to Cracow, the capital of Poland; and by Breslau in Silesia, Misnia, Eger, Ratisbon, and Freysingen, back to Munich, having been absent for more than thirty-two years. Forster, Voy. and Disc. in the North, p. 158.
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