Tafur, Pero, Travels and adventures 1435-1439

(London :  G. Routledge,  1926.)

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Abano, Pedro d', 224

Adam's Peak, Ceylon, 87/.

Adrianople, 126 ff.

Albert   II,    Emperor,    3,    14,

213 ff.', receives Tafur, 214;

is unhorsed at a tourney, 214;

his charader and appearance,

214;   war   with    the   Poles,

215;   quarrel    with   Venice,

213, 223
Alexander III, Pope, 160 ff,
Alexandria, 102
Alexios IV of Trebizond, 130
Alicante, 25
Almeria, 25
Almunecar, 25
Alps, crossing of, 182
Alva,    Don    Fernand    Alvarez,

Count of, 121
Amurath  II,  the  Grand  Turk,

10, 126^,
Ancona, 153/., 231
Andros, 152

Angel, the, inn at Bruges, 197
Angolo,    Fernando    de,     156;

Juan de, 156
Antioch, 63
Antwerp, 203 _^.; the Fair, 203 ;

the horse market, 204
Aquileia, Patriarch of, 223
Aries, Cardinal of, 210
Arms of Eadern   Empire,   121,

123
Arms, Tafur's, 121
Arras, 201/.
Arzila, 23

Asses at Cairo, 72, loi
Assisi, 44
 

Audria, Duke Frederick of.    See

Frederick III
Ayala, Don Fernand Perez de, 209

Babylonia.    See Cairo
Baldwin of Jerusalem, 57
Balsam gardens (La Matarea), jj
Barcelona, 25
Basle,   12,   183^.,   208;  baths

near, 184
Bathing edablishments near Basle,

184 ; at Bruges, 200
Bavaria, Duke Stephen of, takes

Tafur prisoner, 206, 216
Bear hunt, 216
Bethany, 61
Bethlehem, 58
Beyrout, 54, 63
Bills  of Exchange,  use  of,   16,

32 ff,, 171, 173,202
Black Sea, 10, 129/.
Bohemia, 211^.
Bohemian heretics, 212
Bois-le-duc,    192,    205 ;    swans

at, 192
Bologna, 30jf., 230
Bosphorus, 129
Bouillon,   Godfrey  of,   54,   55 ;

tomb of, 57
Braccio, condottiere, 44
Brandenburg, Margrave of, 214
Bread, usage in connedion with,

177
Brescia, Venetians raise siege of,

226/.
Breslau, 3, 14, 213^.; extreme

cold at, 217 ; life in streets of,

217
 

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