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The Itinerary of Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna from 1502 to 1508

1928

The Chapter concerning the manner of living and customs of the King of the Joghe. [...] The Chapter concerning the city of Melacha and the river Gaza otherwise Gange as I think and of the inhumanity of the men. [...] W. T. Sinclair and Donald Ferguson in translating and annotating the travels of Pedro Teixeira 1586-1605 for the Hakluyt Society in 1912 give in Appendix A a translation of "A Short Narrative of the Origin of the Kingdom of Hormuz extracted from the History written by Torunxa [Turun Shah] King of the same." In the Addenda and Corrigenda attached to the volume (p. [...] One of the best is a careful survey of those as to the time spent at various points of the journey because in his day the monsoons governed the voyages of the native craft in which he travelled. [...] In the course of the tale he gives a conversation in execrable Arabic between the mink& captain of the caravan and the "superior of the mosque." q "We being tired of these things and vanities of Mahomet " the caravan next went on to Mecca reaching it in ten days and arriving there on 22 May.
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Pages
207
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146267
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xiv John Jones, Richard Temple view
Discourse on Varthema and his Travels
xv-lxxxv John Jones, Richard Temple view
The Itinerary of Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna
1-114 John Jones, Richard Temple view
Index of Persons Places Etc.
115-121 John Jones, Richard Temple view
Backmatter
i-i John Jones, Richard Temple view

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