Category: Travel Writing
§ 1. Mount Ararat and its legends. The vines of Noah. 2. Martyrdom of apostles, and their miracles. 3. Other martyrs. 4. Conversion of the schismatics by the Missionary Friars. 5. Rulers of Armenia. 6. Its Dead Sea. 7. Its extent. 8, 9. Other particulars of Armenia.
§ 1. Mount Ararat and its legends. The vines of Noah. 2. Martyrdom of apostles, and their miracles. 3. Other martyrs. 4. Conversion of the schismatics by the Missionary Friars....
3. CHAPTER III.§ 1. Tabriz; absence of dew and rain; manna. 2. Conversions to Holy Church; Ur of the Chaldees. 3. Sultania. 4. Onagri. 5. People and productions of Persia. 6. Its extent, and u...
4. CHAPTER IV.§ 1. Date-palms. 2. Absence of springs, and of rain for nine months; heavy dews. 3. Marvels. Habits of the people. 4. Variation of days and nights. 5, 6. Fruits of India; _Chaqu...
5. CHAPTER V.§ 1, 2. The Elephant described. 3. Spices. 4. Ginger; Pepper described; Cinnamon. 5. Islands of India; Ceylon. 6. Pearl fishery. 7. Birds. 8. Marvels of the islands. 9. Winged c...
6. CHAPTER VI.§ 1, 2. Speaks from trustworthy report only. Legend of dragons and carbuncles. Prester John. 3. The Roc. 4. The true unicorn. 5. The civet. 6. The terrestrial paradise. 7. Serpe...
7. CHAPTER VII.8. CHAPTER VIII.§ 1. His wealth, power, and liberality. 2. Paper money. 3. Singular resemblance to Catholic practices. 4, 5. Funeral rites. 6, 7. Great cities of this empire. 8. High civilizati...
9. CHAPTER IX.10. CHAPTER X.11. CHAPTER XI.12. CHAPTER XIV.§ 1. Distance to Constantinople. 2. Thence to Tartary. 3. Extent of the Persian (Tartar) Empire. 4. Of Lesser India. 5. Of Greater India. 6. The Vessels of the Indies. 7. Extent...
13. CHAPTER XV.14. CHAPTER XVI.The little work here presented was printed in the original Latin at Paris in 1839, under the editorship of M. Coquebert-Montbret, in the _Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires, publ...
15. book iii. ch. xi.It is curious, however, that, with reference to the very district of Travancore, which now includes Quilon, where the bishop’s experience must have chiefly lain, two English Res...