COVER -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE, BY THE TRANSLATOR -- INTRODUCTION, BY THE EDITOR -- THE TRAVELS OF LUDOVICO DI VARTHEMA -- DEDICATION TO COUNTESS OF ALBI AND DUCHESS OF TAGLIACOZZO -- THE FIRST CHAPTER, CONCERNING ALEXANDRIA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING CAIRO -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING BARUTI, TRIPOLI, AND ALEPPO -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING AMAN AND MENIN -- THE FIRST CHAPTER CONCERNING DAMASCUS -- THE SECOND CHAPTER CONCERNING THE SAID DAMASCUS -- CHAPTER THE THIRD, CONCERNING THE MAMELUKES IN DAMASCUS -- THE BOOK CONCERNING ARABIA DESERTA -- THE CHAPTER SHOWING THE ROUTE FROM DAMASCUS TO MECCA, WHEREIN SOME ARABS ARE CONCERNED -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE CITY OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING A MOUNTAIN INHABITED BY JEWS -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING WHERE MAHOMET AND HIS COMPANIONS WERE BURIED -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE TEMPLE AND SEPULCHRE OF MAHOMET AND HIS COMPANIONS -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE JOURNEY TO GO FROM MEDINA TO MECCA -- THE CHAPTER SHOWING HOW MECCA IS CONSTRUCTED, AND WHY THE MOORS GO TO MECCA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE MERCHANDIZE IN MECCA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE PARDONING IN MECCA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE MANNER OP THE SACRIFICES IN MECCA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE UNICORNS IN THE TEMPLE OF MECCA, NOT VERY COMMON IN OTHER PLACES -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING SOME OCCURRENCES BETWEEN MECCA AND ZIDA A PORT OF MECCA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING ZIDA, THE PORT OF MECCA, AND OF THE RED SEA -- THE CHAPTER SHOWING WHY THE BED SEA IS NOT NAVIGABLE -- THE SECOND BOOK OF ARABIA FELIX -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE CITY OF GEZAN, AND OF ITS FERTILITY -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING SOME PEOPLE CALLED BADUIN -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF THE RED SEA CALLED OHAMARAM -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE CITY OF ADEN, AND OF SOME CUSTOMS RESPECTING THE MERCHANTS.

CHAPTER CONCERNING THE PARTIALITY OF THE WOMEN OF ARABIA FELIX FOR WHITE MEN -- CHAPTER CONCERNING THE LIBERALITY OF THE QUEEN -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING LAGI, A CITY OF ARABIA FELIX, AND CONCERNING AIAZ, AND THE MARKET IN AIAZ, AND THE CASTLE DANTE -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING ALMACARANA, A CITY OF ARABIA FELIX, AND OF ITS ABUNDANCE -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING REAME, A CITY OF ARABIA FELIX, OF ITS AIR, AND OF THE CUSTOMS OF ITS INHABITANTS -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING SANA, A CITY OF ARABIA FELIX, AND OF THE STRENGTH AND CRUELTY OFTHE KING'S SON -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE SULTAN OF ALL THE ABOVE-MENTIONED CITIES, AND WHEREFORE HE IS CALLED BY THE NAME SECHAMIR -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING APES, AND SOME ANIMALS LIKE LIONS, VERY HOSTILE TO MAN -- DISCOURSE TOUCHING SOME PLACES OF ETHIOPIA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING ZEILA, A CITY OP ETHIOPIA, AND OF THE ABUNDANCE OP IT, AND CONCERNING SOME ANIMALS OF THE SAID CITY, SUCH AS SHEEP AND COWS -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING BARBARA, AN ISLAND OF ETHIOPIA, AND OF ITS PEOPLE -- THE BOOK CONCERNING PERSIA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING DIUOBANDIERRUMI, AND GOA, AND GIULFAR, LANDS OF MESCHET, A PORT OF PERSIA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING ORMUS, A CITY AND ISLAND OF PERSIA, AND HOW THEY GET VERY LARGE PEARLS AT IT BY FISHING -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE SULTAN OF ORMUS, AND OF THE CRUELTY OF THE SON AGAINST THE SULTAN HIS FATHER, HIS MOTHER, AND HIS BROTHERS -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING ERI IN CORAZANI OF PERSIA, AND OF ITS RICHES, AND OF THE ABUNDANCE OF MANY THINGS, AND ESPECIALLY OF RHUBARB -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE RIVER EUFRA, WHICH I BELIEVE TO BE THE EUPHRATES -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING SAMBRAGANTE, (AS IT IS CALLED), A VERY LARGE CITY, LIKE CAIRO, AND OF THE PERSECUTION BY THE SOFFI -- THE FIRST BOOK CONCERNING INDIA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING COMBEIA, A CITY OF INDIA. ABOUNDING IN ALL THINGS.

THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE ESTATE OF THE SULTAN OF THE VERY NOBLE CITY OF COMBEIA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE MANNER OF LIVING AND CUSTOMS OF THE KING OF THE JOGHE -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE CITY OF CEVUL, AND ITS CUSTOMS, AND THE BRAVERY OF ITS PEOPLE -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING DABULI, A CITY OF INDIA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING GOGA, AN ISLAND OF INDIA, AND THE KING OF THE SAME -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING DECAN, A VERY BEAUTIFUL CITY OF INDIA, AND OF ITS MANY AND VARIOUS RICHES AND JEWELS -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE ACTIVITY OF THE KING IN MILITARY AFFAIRS -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING BATHACALA, A CITY OF INDIA, AND OF ITS FERTILITY IN MANY THINGS, AND ESPECIALLY IN RICE AND SUGAR -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING CENTACOLA, ONOR, AND MANGOLOR, EXCELLENT DISTRICTS OF INDIA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING CANONOR, A VERY GREAT CITY IN INDIA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING BISINEGAR, A VERY FERTILE CITY OF NARSINGA IN INDIA -- THE CHAPTER SHOWING HOW ELEPHANTS GENERATE -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING TORMAPATANI, A CITY OF INDIA -- AND CONCERNING PANDARANI, A PLACE ONE DAY DISTANT -- AND CONCERNING CAPOGATTO, A SIMILAR DISTRICT -- THE SECOND BOOK CONCERNING INDIA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING CALICUT, A VERY LARGE CITY OF INDIA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE KING OF CALICUT AND THE RELIGION OF THE PEOPLE -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE MANNER OF EATING OF THE KING OF CALICUT -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE BRAHMINS, THAT IS THE PRIESTS OF CALICUT -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE PAGANS OF CALICUT, AND OF WHAT CLASSES THEY ARE -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE DRESS OF THE KING AND QUEEN AND OTHERS OF CALICUT, AND OF THEIR FOOD -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE CEREMONIES WHICH THEY PERFORM AFTER THE DEATH OF THE KING -- THE CHAPTER SHOWING HOW THE PAGANS SOMETIMES EXCHANGE THEIR WIVES -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE MANNER OF LIVING, AND OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, AMONG THE PAGANS.

THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE MODE OF WORSHIP OF THE PAGANS -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE FIGHTING OF THESE PEOPLE OF CALICUT -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE MANNER OF NAVIGATING IN CALICUT -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE PALACE OF THE KING OF CALICUT -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE SPICES WHICH GROW IN THAT COUNTRY OF CALICUT -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING SOME FRUITS OF CALICUT -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE MOST FRUITFUL TREE IN THE WORLD -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE PRACTICE THEY FOLLOW IN SOWING RICE -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE PHYSICIANS WHO VISIT THE SICK IN CALICUT -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE BANKERS AND MONEY-CHANGERS -- THE CHAPTER SHOWING HOW THE POLIARI AND HIRAVA FEED THEIR CHILDREN -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE SERPENTS WHICH ARE FOUND IN CALICUT -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE LIGHTS OF THE KING OF CALICUT -- THE CHAPTER SHOWING HOW A GREAT NUMBER OF PEOPLE CAME TO CALICUT ON THE 25TH OF DECEMBER TO RECEIVE THEIR PARDON -- THE THIRD BOOK CONCERNING INDIA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING CIOROMANDEL, A CITY OF INDIA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING ZAILANI, WHERE JEWELS ARE PRODUCED -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE TREE OF THE CANELLA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING PALEACHET, A COUNTRY OF INDIA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING TARNASSARI, A CITY OF INDIA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE DOMESTIC AND WILD ANIMALS OF TARNASSARI -- THE CHAPTER SHOWING HOW THE KING CAUSES HIS WIFE TO BE DEFLOWERED, AND SO ALSO THE OTHER PAGANS OF THE CITY -- THE CHAPTER SHOWING HOW THE DEAD BODIES ARE PRESERVED IN THIS CITY -- THE CHAPTER SHOWING HOW THE WIFE IS BURNT ALIVE AFTER THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE WHICH IS OBSERVED IN TARNASSARI -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE SHIPS WHICH ARE USED IN TARNASSARI -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE CITY OF BANGHELLA, AND OF ITS DISTANCE FROM TARNASSARI -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING SOME CHRISTIAN MERCHANTS IN BANGHELLA.

THE CHAPTER CONCERNING PEGO, A CITY OF INDIA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE DRESS OF THE KING OF PEGO ABOVE MENTIONED -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE CITY MELACHA, AND THE RIVER GAZA, OTHERWISE GANGE AS I THINK, AND OF THE INHUMANITY OP THE MEN -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF SUMATRA, AND CONCERNING PIDER, A CITY IN SUMATRA -- THE CHAPTEE CONCERNING ANOTHER SORT OF PEPPER, AND CONCERNING SILK, AND BENZOIN, WHICH ARE PRODUCED IN THE SAID CITY OF PIDER -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THREE SORTS OF ALOES-WOOD -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE EXPERIMENT WITH THE SAID ALOES-WOOD AND BENZOIN -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE VARIETY OF DEALERS IN THE SAID ISLAND OF SUMATRA -- THE CHAPTER CONCEENING THE HOUSES, AND HOW THEY ARE COVERED, IN THE SAID ISLAND OF SUMATRA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF BANDAN, WHERE NUTMEGS AND MACE GROW -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF MONOCH, WHERE THE CLOVES GROW -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF BORNEI -- THE CHAPTER SHOWING HOW THE MARINERS MANAGE THE NAVIGATION TOWARDS THE ISLAND OF GIAVA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE ISLAND OP GIAVA, OF ITS FAITH, MANNER OF LIVING AND CUSTOMS, AND OF THE THINGS WHICH GROW IN THE SAID ISLAND -- THE CHAPTER SHOWING HOW IN THIS ISLAND THE OLD PEOPLE ARE SOLD BY THEIR CHILDREN OR THEIR RELATIONS, AND AFTERWARDS ARE EATEN -- THE CHAPTER WHERE, AT MID-DAY, THE SUN CASTS A SHADOW IN THE ISLAND OF GIAVA -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING OUR RETURN -- THE CHAPTER SHOWING HOW I MADE MYSELF A PHYSICIAN IN CALICUT -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE NEWS OF THE SHIPS OF THE PORTUGUESE WHICH CAME IN TO CALICUT -- THE CHAPTER SHOWING HOW THE MOORS SUMMON TO THE CHURCH THOSE WHO ARE OF THEIR SECT AND FAITH -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE FLIGHT FROM CALICUT -- THE CHAPTER SHOWING HOW I ESCAPED FROM CANONOR TO THE PORTUGUESE -- THE CHAPTER CONCERNING THE FLEET OF CALICUT.

THE CHAPTER SHOWING HOW I WAS SENT BACK TO CANONOR BY THE VICEROY.