CONTENTS

I: HIUEN-TSIANG
Master of the Law; and his Perilous Journey to the SacredLand of Buddha, A.D. 627–643.
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I.The Isolation of China[1]
II.Buddha and Buddhism[5]
III.An Adventurous Journey[9]
IV.Through India in the Seventh Century[27]
V.Indian Social Life in the SeventhCentury[47]
VI.The Journey Home by a New andPerilous Route[55]
VII.Peaceful Days[61]
II: SÆWULF, AN ENGLISH PILGRIM TO PALESTINE
I.Early Pilgrimage to Palestine[65]
II.“Dieu le Veult”[68]
III.Sæwulf’s Record[72]
III: MOHAMMED IBN ABD ALLAH,
Better known as Ibn Batûta, the Greatest of MoslemTravellers, A.D. 1304–77.
I.The Whirlwind from Arabia and WhatFollowed[89]
II.A Resolute Pilgrim[96]
III.A Roundabout Pilgrimage[104]
IV.Glimpses of Arabia, Persia and EastAfrica in the Fourteenth Century[109]
V.To India by Way of Constantinople andthe Steppes[117]
VI.An Eastern Despot[128]
VII.Perils by Land and Sea[137]
VIII.Off to Malaysia and Cathay[147]
IX.Moors of Spain and Negroes of Timbuktu[158]
IV: LUDOVICO VARTHEMA OF BOLOGNA,
Renegade Pilgrim to Mecca, Foremost of Italian Travellers.
I.The Great Age of the Renaissance andof Discovery[163]
II.From Venice to Damascus[165]
III.Over the Desert to Mecca[172]
IV.The Escape from the Caravan[186]
V.Certain Adventures in Arabia the Happy[190]
VII.The Pagans of Narsinga[208]
VIII.Farther India, Malaysia and the BandaIslands[221]
IX.Some Cunning Manoeuvres[235]
X.War by Land and Sea[244]
XI.The New Way Round the Cape[249]