SELECTIONS FROM THE
TRAVELS OF IBN BATUTA
TRANSLATED FROM THE ABRIDGED ARABIC MANUSCRIPT
COPIES PRESERVED IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CAMBRIDGE, WITH NOTES...
BY
THE REV. SAMUEL LEE, B.D.
D.D. of the University of Halle; Honorary Member
of the Asiatic Society of Paris; Honorary Associate of the Royal Society
of Literature; Member of the Oriental Translation Committee, and of the
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland; Fellow of the Cambridge
Philosophical Society; and Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge.
London: Printed for the Oriental
Translation Committee, 1829
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*Introduction
by FWP*
*Translator's
Dedication and Preface (1829)*
*A
GOOD OVERVIEW MAP*
*Views of
Ibn Batuta*
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*EARLY TRAVELS (1324-)*
*A saint sends a message to India* == *Fire-walkers in Irak and India* == *The peerless generosity of the King of India* == *The risk of being killed by elephants* == *The Indians' esteem for the betel-nut* == *The cocoa-nut, which looks like a man's head**CENTRAL ASIA, IRAN, AFGHANISTAN*
*The devastation wrought by the Tartars* == *About Sultan Tarmashirin, grandson of Jengiz Khan* == *The destruction of the great mosque of Balkh* == *More travels in Khorasan* == *From Kabul on to the Panj Ab (1332)**IN HINDUSTAN (1332-*
*Travels, and the courier system, in the Sinde* == *Fruits and grains of Hindustan* == *In Ajodahan* == *Women who burn themselves when their husbands die* == *On to Dehli**HISTORY OF THE DEHLI SULTANS*
*Earliest days* == *The story of Balaban* == *Balaban's death and the succession struggles* == *The reign of Ala Oddin* == *Ghiath Oddin Toglik seizes power* == *How Mohammed Toglik came to the throne**IN DEHLI*
*A welcome from the Queen Mother* == *The Emperor Mohammed Toglik's hospitality and generosity* == *The punitive exile to Dawlatabad* == *More of the Emperor 's acts of vengefulness* == *A term as Judge of Dehli is prudently cut short**THE EMBASSY TO CHINA (1342-)*
*The request of the Emperor of China* == *An embassy and gifts are to be sent in reply* == *A narrow escape from a great danger* == *The miraculous powers of Jogees and Goftars* == *Dawlatabad and beyond* == *Malabar, the country of black pepper**ON THE MALABAR COAST*
*In Malabar* == *The miraculous tree of Dadkannan* == *The ships of Kalikut* == *A terrible storm disrupts the China expedition* == *An interval with the King of Hinaur**THE MALDIVES*
*Observations about the Maldives* == *How the islands became Mohammedan* == *At the court of the Queen of Mohl* == *Departure from the court of Mohl**IN CEYLON*
*Arrival in Ceylon to see Adam's Peak* == *Rubies and elephants* == *The leader of the monkeys, and fierce leeches* == *Adam's Peak* == *The return journey**TO BENGAL, AND THEN ONWARD*
*Shipwrecked in Maabar* == *The Fakeers of Pattan* == *A meeting with a Sheikh in Bengal* == *Later events in China as predicted by the Sheikh* == *Onward to Java, and a Dog-mouthed race*
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Courtesy of Columbia University
Libraries:
a French translation of the whole
work, with the Arabic text:
*vol.
1*; *vol.
2*; *vol.
3*; *vol.
4*
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