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Rh which travellers at that time seldom thought worth recording”; and accompanies this opinion with many examples, at pp. 295-299 of his work.

Rubruquis wrote his travels in Latin, and several copies of the original still exist.

There is a copy in manuscript in the Royal Library of Paris, in the codex No. 686, which bears the title: “Itineraria in Tartariam”.—See d’Avezac’s Plan Carpin, p. 50.

It has only been once printed in the language of the original, and that in Hakluyt’s Collection, vol. i, pp. 71-79, but from a manuscript of Lord Lumley’s, imperfect at the end.

Purchas found a perfect copy of the travels in Benet College Library at Cambridge, with the inscription: “Historia Monogallorum sive Tartarorum”.—See d’Avezac, p. 52. He translated it into English, and inserted it into his “Pilgrimes”, vol. iii, p. 1. Roger Bacon has likewise inserted extracts from Rubruquis, in his “Opus Majus”.

Bergeron translated it from this English version into French, under the title—

It was again reprinted under the title: “Relation