Four Pilgrims

About this eBook

Author

Boulting, William

Credits

E-text prepared by Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia

Subject

Varthema, Lodovico de, active 15th century

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 63894

Release Date

November 27, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.FOUR PILGRIMS
2. 2.ERRATA.
3. 3.CONTENTS — PREFACE
4. 4.I.—HIUEN-TSIANG. — CHAPTER I. THE ISOLATION OF CHINA — CHAPTER II. BUDDHA AND BUDDHISM. — CHAPTER III. AN ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY. — CHAPTER IV. THROUGH INDIA IN THE SEVENTH CENTURY. — CHAPTER V. INDIAN SOCIAL LIFE IN THE SEVENTH CENTURY. — CHAPTER VI. THE JOURNEY HOME BY A NEW AND PERILOUS ROUTE. — CHAPTER VII. PEACEFUL DAYS.
5. 5.II.—SÆWULF, AN ENGLISH PILGRIM TO PALESTINE. A.D. 1102 — CHAPTER I. EARLY PILGRIMAGE TO PALESTINE. — CHAPTER II. “DIEU LE VEULT.” — CHAPTER III. SÆWULF’S RECORD.
6. 6.MOHAMMED IBN ABD ALLAH — CHAPTER I. THE WHIRLWIND FROM ARABIA AND WHAT FOLLOWED. — CHAPTER II. A RESOLUTE PILGRIM — CHAPTER III A ROUNDABOUT PILGRIMAGE — CHAPTER IV GLIMPSES OF ARABIA, PERSIA AND EAST AFRICA IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY — CHAPTER V TO INDIA BY WAY OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE STEPPES — CHAPTER VI AN EASTERN DESPOT — CHAPTER VII PERILS BY LAND AND SEA — CHAPTER VIII OFF TO MALAYSIA AND CATHAY — CHAPTER IX MOORS OF SPAIN AND NEGROES OF TIMBUKTU
7. 7.IV.—LUDOVICO VARTHEMA OF BOLOGNA, — CHAPTER I. THE GREAT AGE OF THE RENAISSANCE AND OF DISCOVERY. — CHAPTER II.—FROM VENICE TO DAMASCUS. — CHAPTER III OVER THE DESERT TO MECCA — CHAPTER IV. THE ESCAPE FROM THE CARAVAN — CHAPTER V. CERTAIN ADVENTURES IN ARABIA THE HAPPY. — CHAPTER VI. EASTWARD HO! — CHAPTER VII. THE PAGANS OF NARSINGA. — CHAPTER VIII. FARTHER INDIA, MALAYSIA AND THE BANDA ISLANDS. — CHAPTER IX. SOME CUNNING MANŒUVRES. — CHAPTER X. WAR BY LAND AND SEA — CHAPTER XI. THE NEW WAY ROUND THE CAPE.
8. 8.FOOTNOTES:

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