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acumen, is the only writer who gave

Ascolino or Carpini any credit for what

they did. Robertson says, on page 44 of

his "American History":

"All Christendom having been alarmed

with accounts of the rapid progress of

Zengls Khan, Innocent IV, who enter

tained most exalted ideas of his own

power and the submission due to his in

junctions, sent Father John de Piano

Carpini at the head of a mission of

Franciscan monks and Father Ascolino

at the head of another of Dominicans to

enjoin Kayark Khan, the grandson of

Zengis, who was then at the head of

the Tartar empire, to embrace the Chris

tian faith and desist from desolating

the earth by his arms."

After narrating how these monks,

whom no one can accuse of effeminate

propensities, set out on the Heel and

Yoe road, which was the only one at

that time which led any way directly

from Rome to Tartary, Robertson de

scribes in strong, attractive language

how they bearded the lion-tiger-panther

combination of a Tartar in his den and

told him substantially, but In classical

language, as. the American boy would

put it. "to get off the earth." Robertson

goes on to tell that when they left the

presence of the Zengis grandson one of

them, the Dominican, went into Persia,

and the other, the Franciscan, proceeded

to the uttermost bounds of Tartary.

The account they gave of their trav

els on their return to Europe inefted

the adventures of Marco Paolo, and it

is a well known fact that his book

gave a zest to the adventurous desires

of Columbus. The Genoese strongly

criticised the Venetian, it is true, as

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The San Francisco call. (1912). San Francisco [Calif.], 1912-09-15. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85066387/1912-09-15/ed-1/?sp=74

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The San Francisco call, 1912-09-15.