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GENERAL PLAN OF KERR'S COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS--Taken from Volume 18.
PART I.
Voyages and Travels of Discovery in the middle ages; from the era of Alfred King of England, in the ninth century, to that of Don Henry of Portugal, at the commencement of the fifteenth century.
PART II.
General Voyages and Travels, chiefly of Discovery; from the era of Don Henry in 1412, to that of George III. in 1760.
PART III.
General Voyages and Travels of Discovery during the era of George III., which were conducted upon scientific principles, and by which the Geography of the globe has been nearly perfected.
PART IV.
Historical Deduction of the Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest times to the present period.
TABULAR VIEW OF THE CONTENTS OF THE SEVENTEEN VOLUMES.
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VOLUME I.
Discovery of Iceland by the Norwegians.
Voyages of Ohthere to the White Sea and the Baltic.
Remarks on the situation of Sciringe-heal and Haethum, by J.R. Forster.
Voyage of Wulfstein in the Baltic.
---- of Sighelm to India.
Travels of John Erigena to Athens.
Geography of the known world as described by King Alfred.
Travels of Andrew Leucander.
Voyage of Swanus to Jerusalem.
---- of three ambassadors from England to Constantinople.
Pilgrimage of Alured to Jerusalem.
---- of Ingulphus.
Original discovery of Greenland by the Icelanders in the ninth century.
Early discovery of America by ditto, in 1001.
Travels of two Mahometans into India and China, in the ninth century.
---- of Rabbi Benjamin from Spain to China, in the twelfth century.
---- of an Englishman in Tartary, in 1243.
Sketch of the Revolutions in Tartary.
Travels of Carpina to the Moguls, &c. in 1246.
---- of Rubruquis into Tartary about 1253.
---- of Haitho, in 1254.
---- of Marco Polo into China, &c. from 1260 to 1295.
---- of Oderic, in 1318.
---- of Sir John Mandeville, in 1322.
Itinerary of Pegoletti between Asofand China, in 1355.
Voyages, of Nicolo and Antonio Zeno, in 1380.
Travels of Schiltberger into Tartary, in 1394.
---- of the Ambassadors of Shah Rokh, in China, in 1419.
Voyage and Shipwreck of Quirini, in 1431.
Travels of Josaphat Barbaro from Venice to Tanna (now Asof), in 1436.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A General History and Collection of Voyages and Tr
- 2: History of the discovery and conquest of Peru
- 3: By Captain Windham and Antonio Anes Pinteado
- 4: Voyage of Captain Downton to India
- 5: Commodore Byron's narrative of his shipwreck
- 6: The Editor has necessarily had recourse to their historians
- 7: In the short Prospectus of this work
- 8: The only maritime incident connected with our subject
- 9: That introductions and prefaces
- 10: Voyage of Wulfstein in the Baltic
- 11: Pilgrimage of Alured to Jerusalem
- 12: In the ninth century of the Christian era
- 13: A Nordman or Norwegian vikingr
- 14: That a party of Norman pirates or vikingr
- 15: Ohthere told his lord King Alfred
- 16: According to the description given to the king by Ohthere
- 17: In which Ohthere could not be mistaken
- 18: The spot where the Scyres lived
- 19: But all have agreed that it must be Sleswic
- 20: Where it is called Wisle mouth 12
- 21: 9 Witland is a district of Samland in Prussia
- 22: Where the Ilfing and Wisle
- 23: Through the additions of Malmsbury
- 24: Swa swa Oceanus ymbligeth utan
- 25: And to the north of these are Capadocia and Armenia
- 26: From the Tanais westwards to the Rhine
- 27: And the Sweon 58 to the north
- 28: To the south of Narbonense is the Mediterranean
- 29: To the east of Libia Ethiopica is the farther Egypt
- 30: And seems to allude to the Bahr el Abiad
- 31: 22 The Cwen sea is the White sea
- 32: Not far from great Glogau Forst
- 33: 61 This is the same nation with the Finnas or Laplanders
- 34: The Geothulas are evidently the Getulians
- 35: The Voyage of Swanus to Jerusalem in 1052 1
- 36: Sent them to the bishop of Ephesus with letters
- 37: Pilgrimage of Ingulphus Abbot of Croyland
- 38: From the most glorious sepulchre of Christ
- 39: The immediate successor of Ansgar
- 40: Early Discovery of Winland by the Icelanders
- 41: Next summer Lief sailed again to Winland
- 42: With which they made a voyage to Winland
- 43: In the accompanying commentary by Abu Zeid
- 44: The inhabitants have cocoa nut trees
- 45: Where also they ship their goods which come from Basra
- 46: From thence they sail to a place called Mascat
- 47: His silver coin is what we call Thartarian drams
- 48: One of these is the king of Harez
- 49: Like that named falus by the Arabians
- 50: According to the order of the viceroy
- 51: When any person becomes bankrupt
- 52: And on my return to the Indies
- 53: But the Chinese use both indifferently
- 54: Than a geographical definition
- 55: The fire worshippers of Persia
- 56: China became like the empire of Alexander
- 57: Except the small pieces of copper like those we falus
- 58: Waited upon an eunuch who had been sent to Canfu
- 59: There dwelt at Basra one Ebn Wahab
- 60: And the country of the Chozars
- 61: Komar is the country whence the aloes wood
- 62: Had a dispute at Canfu with an eunuch
- 63: The province of Chorassan is almost on the borders of China
- 64: But the musk of Thibet is far better than that of China
- 65: Cut off a piece of it with his cangiar
- 66: Holding the kris to his throat
- 67: Which they bring to Oman for sale
- 68: In this sea is the island of Socotra
- 69: An Arab came once to Bassora with a pearl of great value
- 70: In the travels of Ebn Wahab
- 71: Congeneric with the country of Zanguebar
- 72: Travels of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela
- 73: Constantinople is eighteen miles in circuit
- 74: In Pera there are about 2000 Jewish Rabbinists
- 75: Even in the languages of the Ismaelites
- 76: Which are situated near the river Gozan
- 77: These Copheral Turks invaded Persia about fifteen years ago
- 78: A figure resembling the deceased
- 79: But the others divide each parascha into three sedarim
- 80: Old Misraim is two league distant from New Misraim
- 81: Which signifies the Pharos of Alexander
- 82: Benjamin made an expedition from Damietta to Mount Sinai
- 83: Between the Tigris and Euphrates
- 84: That nation which is called Tartars
- 85: The Tartars got notice of this man by means of their spies
- 86: The Greeks became acquainted with Western Scythia
- 87: Octai was succeeded by his son Gayuk
- 88: Received the subordinate rule of Transoxiana
- 89: After establishing his authority in Zagatai
- 90: Under the command of Zagatai khan
- 91: Introductory Epistle by John de Plano Carpini
- 92: When we were at the horde of Syra
- 93: When they have abundance of mares milk
- 94: Melich appealed to the Tartar emperor for justice
- 95: And the Mongals obtained the victory
- 96: Then the Indians charged the Mongals
- 97: But Ordu is the superior of all the dukes
- 98: And from thence returned into Comania
- 99: 1 This is probably a manufacture of Bagdat or Baldach
- 100: How the Tartars ought to be resisted
- 101: And consulting with the millenary 4
- 102: But the interpreter whom we had hired at Kiow
- 103: The whole of this journey was through the land of Comania
- 104: Passing eastwards through Comania
- 105: According to the Tartar customs
- 106: All the Tartar dukes were assembled in this neighbourhood
- 107: And we therefore made no genuflexions
- 108: By the various envoys and messengers
- 109: That when they had written in the Tartar language
- 110: To accompany us to Kiow in Russia
- 111: That which is on the south is called Synope
- 112: We landed at Soldaia 5 on the 21st of May
- 113: Sartach and Baatu draw large revenues
- 114: From the authority of Rubruquis misunderstood
- 115: So that the court of a rich Moal appears like a large city
- 116: And the minstrel begins to play
- 117: The clear supernatent liquor is called cara cosmos
- 118: The Tartars are most expert hunters
- 119: They have an ornament for their heads which they call Botta
- 120: They never wash their garments
- 121: I saw other kinds of sepulchres
- 122: That hearing Sartach was become a Christian
- 123: He then sent these to Soldaia to be translated
- 124: On the eve of Pentecost or Whitsunday
- 125: From leaving the province of Casaria
- 126: We arrived on the banks of the mighty river Tanais or Don
- 127: Of the Dominions and Subjects of Sartach
- 128: Of the Magnificence of the Court of Sartach
- 129: And when Sartach had heard these read
- 130: Leaving the station of Sartach
- 131: His brother Vut succeeded to all his great riches
- 132: And from the mountains of the Alani
- 133: On that part of the Volga where we arrived
- 134: The clerk returning to the court of Sartach
- 135: For otherwise I shall forsake you by the way
- 136: These Bulgarians came from the Greater Bulgaria
- 137: These Moals whom we visited and prayed for
- 138: On my arrival at the court of Mangu khan
- 139: And the lake of Balkash or Palkati Nor
- 140: Who open and adorn the temples at the Kalends
- 141: And in the language of the Moal
- 142: I am convinced that these Jugurs
- 143: They pay to the Moals or Mongals
- 144: Or Singan fu in the province of Shensee
- 145: Arrival at the Court of Mangu khan
- 146: That I could no longer go barefooted
- 147: The house had belonged to the mother of Cerina
- 148: That Mangu khan gave us two months to stay
- 149: The Moal fell sick and died there
- 150: Mangu khan himself came to the chapel
- 151: The monk sent to Mangu to fast that week
- 152: Mangu khan then sent for the monk
- 153: Which he presented to Mangu khan
- 154: That there is a province beyond Kathay
- 155: And lodged a complaint before Mangu
- 156: And the young man informed Mangu
- 157: Were placed near the Nestorian church
- 158: Being assisted by the Nestorians
- 159: Kathay or northern China is due east
- 160: Next day Mangu sent one of his secretaries
- 161: And hearing that Sartach had become a Christian
- 162: To the before mentioned question of the Kathayan
- 163: With this man the Nestorians talked much
- 164: When I came before the khan I kneeled
- 165: The other soothsayers dwell behind the court
- 166: Mangu khan commanded that she should live
- 167: Those two monks who came from you to Sartach
- 168: Leaving the Leskar or moving camp of Mangu khan
- 169: And recommended them to Sartach
- 170: Where one of the sons of Sartach resided
- 171: My guide went to Tauris to speak with Argon
- 172: I found many Franks at Iconium
- 173: Was soon afterwards made soldan
- 174: In travelling westwards up the Araxes or Araz
- 175: The great sovereign of the Tartars or Mongals
- 176: The Jugur or Uigur of other authors
- 177: The great emperor of the Mongals or Tartars
- 178: Who was then at war with Bereke
- 179: As peace was concluded in 1299
- 180: A manuscript of the travels of Marco polo
- 181: At that time there came to Bochara a person of distinction
- 182: And speaking orderly in the Tartarian language
- 183: Nicolo of Vicenza and Guelmo of Tripoli
- 184: Who was of the family of the late queen Bolgana
- 185: On the south side of the Euxine
- 186: Description of Armenia the Lesser
- 187: In Bagdat are many manufactures of gold and silk
- 188: On the day appointed by the caliph
- 189: It is twelve days journey from Tauris to Persia 2
- 190: Which is subject to the Tartars
- 191: In returning from Ormus to Kerman
- 192: Condense below into tutia of tutty 5
- 193: And by Christians Arbore secco 7
- 194: Or heretics in regard to the Mahometan law
- 195: Which is inhabited by Mahometans
- 196: As they are all much addicted to hunting
- 197: And Shash on the Jihon or Sirr
- 198: Samarcand 1 is a great and famous city
- 199: We arrive at the great city of Lop
- 200: And the idol is supposed to inhale the savour of the meat
- 201: For the Yarkand of modern maps
- 202: Besides idolaters and Mahometans
- 203: In twelve days journey from Campion
- 204: The Tartars so increased in numbers
- 205: Zingis reigned six years after this
- 206: The Tartars feed many herds of cattle
- 207: Every morning they take about half a pound of this curd
- 208: Under the general name of Bargu
- 209: Going south east from this place towards Kathay
- 210: He is descended of Prester John
- 211: Unless those who are descended from Zingis khan
- 212: He is lineally descended from Zingis khan
- 213: Who served in the army of Kublai
- 214: The khan has a military council
- 215: Account of the Imperial City of Cambalu
- 216: Over against the palace of the khan
- 217: Till the khan has done drinking
- 218: The khan sometimes receives 100
- 219: And if within thirty days journey of Cambalu
- 220: Ten thousand men attend the khan
- 221: An immense quantity is fabricated in the city of Cambalu
- 222: And when dispatched with the khans letters
- 223: The khan receives the tenths of all wool
- 224: He has recourse to the astrologers to read
- 225: Some Account of the Provinces of Kathay
- 226: The inhabitants are mostly idolaters
- 227: A populous province called Achbaluch Mangi
- 228: That Marco keeps on the north of the Hoang ho
- 229: Of which the principal is called Caindu
- 230: We came to the great and famous city of Jaci 2
- 231: Seasoned with spiceries or garlic
- 232: The magicians or priests of the idols are assembled
- 233: The inhabitants are all idolaters
- 234: Yet both here and in Cangigu and Amu
- 235: On passing the great river Caramoran
- 236: Communicating both with Kathay and Mangi
- 237: He sent a new army to reinforce Chinsan Baian
- 238: Sian Fu is a large and noble city in the province of Mangi
- 239: Which is carried for the most part to Cambalu
- 240: 1 Called Tou tsong by the Chinese historians
- 241: 16 This must be Tchin kian fou
- 242: Being at hand and commodious for the markets
- 243: In this street there are innumerable long close chariots
- 244: Of which there are many in Quinsai
- 245: And rich artificers of Quinsai
- 246: First from salt eight tomans of gold
- 247: The inhabitants of Zaitum are idolaters
- 248: The modern Kua hing may have once been Quinsay
- 249: Or province over which Quinsai presided
- 250: SECTION XVII Of the island of Zipangu
- 251: Zipangu is far distant from India
- 252: The merchants of Zaitum and Mangi
- 253: There are unicorns in this country
- 254: 6 According to the Trevigi edition
- 255: From the Trevigi edition del Maistro
- 256: There is a high mountain in Ceylon
- 257: And those who neglect to do this are held in disrepute
- 258: Of his dissertation on the Trevigi edition of Marco Polo
- 259: Who is subject to the archbishop of Socotora
- 260: And then went to Moabar or Coromandel
- 261: Which make the best of their way to rejoin their foals
- 262: Travelled into the eastern countries in the year 1318
- 263: Tauris is most conveniently situated
- 264: Azaron is obviously Erzerum
- 265: But were forcibly carried to Thana
- 266: The other three went to the kadi
- 267: Afterwards the kadi went to the melich
- 268: And the emperor ordered the melich
- 269: And the idolaters have a custom
- 270: Named Flandrina and Cynci lim 1
- 271: In which this idol is preserved
- 272: I then went to another island named Java
- 273: It is possible the river Banjar
- 274: Unless they can ransom themselves with money
- 275: This lake is full of horse leeches
- 276: I arrived at the great province of Mancy
- 277: I came to another city named Canasia 1
- 278: From Quinsay I went to the city of Chilenso
- 279: Having forty eight tomans of tributary fires
- 280: There were at least eighteen tomans
- 281: The great khan is carried in a chariot
- 282: A crier calleth out in a loud voice
- 283: And one tagar is the burthen of an ass
- 284: The friars have baptized great multitudes
- 285: I immediately put incense into the censer
- 286: Being then in his convent at Udina
- 287: The travels of Sir John Mandevil
- 288: And makes Prester John emperor of India
- 289: Guide or the Route from Tana to Kathay
- 290: Or the city of Hadschi Aidar Khan
- 291: Had been visited by Antonio Zeno
- 292: Who was father to Rinieri Zeno
- 293: Is easily transmuted into Porland
- 294: Might easily to an Italian ear seem Zichmni
- 295: Zichmni the lord of all these countries
- 296: He made an attack upon the islands of Estland
- 297: Monks resort to this monastery from Norway and Sweden
- 298: Varied Soroen and transmuted to Sorani
- 299: Sequel of the Narrative by Antonio Zeno
- 300: But the Frisland fisherman and his companions
- 301: In the direction which led towards Drogio
- 302: Upon this Zichmni sailed from the harbour
- 303: Schildtberger followed the standards of Abubekr
- 304: Took the field against Timur khan
- 305: Travels of the Ambassadors of Mirza Shah Rokh
- 306: But probably borrowed the article from Witsen
- 307: The Kathayans came daily to meet them
- 308: Governor of the borders of Kathay
- 309: Twenty cubits in circumference
- 310: At the rate of four or five pharasangs each day 32
- 311: Supporting a gallery sixty cubits long and forty cubits wide
- 312: Then the residence of Shah Rokh
- 313: 4 Ulug Beg was the son and successor of Shah Rokh
- 314: 25 Six merres make a pharasang
- 315: A city at some distance to the west of the Hoan ho river
- 316: According to the reckoning of the Kathayans
- 317: The ambassador of Mirza Siurgatmish
- 318: In the Kathayan or Chinese language
- 319: Which were given to Soltan Shah
- 320: They came to the city of Kashgar 15 on the sixth of Rajeb
- 321: To the south of Little Bucharia
- 322: Voyage and Shipwreck of Quirini
- 323: And through scarcity of provisions
- 324: Preservation of Quirini on the Coast of Norway
- 325: Having extended his search for shellfish
- 326: And Quirini pitched upon Francis Quirini of Candia
- 327: On the arrival of the boats at Rostoe
- 328: The boys are so inured to the cold
- 329: All the inhabitants of Rostoe made them presents of fish
- 330: Voyage from Rostoe to Drontheim
- 331: In St Olave's church at Drontheim
- 332: To accompany them eight days journey on their way to Lodese
- 333: The province of Alania contains many mountains
- 334: And partly also near Georgiana
- 335: Farther on from Kaffa lies Gothia
- 336: Twenty five Italian miles below Astracan
- 337: This country of Kasan enjoys considerable trade
- 338: Is named by Abulfeda Soldet or Kirm
- 339: Forst 19 Called likewise Cimbolo
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