Anno Domini 1331. decima quarta die mensis Ianuarij obijt in Christo Beatus Odoricus ordinis fratrum Minorum, cuius precibus omnipotens Deus multa, et varia miracula demonstrauit; quae ego Guetelus notarius communis Vtini, filius domini Damiani de portu Gruario, de mandato et voluntate nobilis viri Domini Conradi de Buardigio Castaldionis, et consilij Vtini, scripsi, sicut potui, bona fide, et fratribus Minoribus exemplum dedi; sed non de omnibus, quia sunt innumerabilia, et mihi difficilia ad scribendum.

The same in English.

Here beginneth the iournall of Frier Odoricus, one of the order of the
  Minorites, concerning strange things which hee sawe among the Tarters of
  the East.

Albeit many and sundry things are reported by diuers authors concerning the fashions and conditions of this world:  notwithstanding I frier Odoricus of Friuli, de portu Vahonis being desirous to trauel vnto the foreign and remote nations of infidels, sawe and heard great and miraculous things, which I am able truely to auoch. [Sidenote:  Pera.  Trapesunda.] First of al therefore sayling from Pera by Constantinople, I arrived at Trapesunda.  This place is right commodiously situate, as being an hauen for the Persians and Medes, and other countreis beyonde the sea.  In this lande I behelde with great delight a very strange spectacle, namely a certaine man leading about with him more then foure thousande partriges.  The man himselfe walked vpon the ground, and the partriges flew in the aire, which he ledde vnto a certaine castle called Zauena, being three dayes iourney distant from Trapesunda.  The saide partriges were so tame, that when the man was desirous to lie downe and rest, they would all come flocking about him like chickens.  And so hee led them vnto Trapesunda, and vnto the palace of the Emperour, who tooke as many of them as he pleased, and the rest the saide man carried vnto the place from whence he came.  In this citie lyeth the body of Athanasius, vpon the gate of the citie. [Sidenote:  The citie of Azaron in Armenia maior.] And then I passed on further vnto Armenia maior, to a certaine citie called Azaron, which had bene very rich in olde time, but nowe the Tarters haue almost layde it waste.  In the saide citie there was abundance of bread and flesh, and of all other victuals except wine and fruites.  This citie also is very colde, and is reported to be higher situated, then any other city in the world.  It hath most holesome and sweete waters about it:  for the veines of the said waters seeme to spring and flow from the mighty riuer of Euphrates, which is but a dayes iourney from the saide city.  Also, the said citie stands directly in the way to Tauris. [Sidenote:  Sobissacalo.] And I passed on vnto a certaine mountaine called Sobissacalo.  In the foresaide countrey there is the very same mountalne whereupon the Arke of Noah rested:  vnto the which I would willingly haue ascended, if my company would haue stayed for me.  Howbeit the people of that