_Of the ways and roads between ~Egypt~ and ~Ethiopia~._ p. 479 _Of ~Ethiopia~: By ~Michael~ of ~Tripoli~, Embassador from the ~Habessine~ Emperor to the Grand Signior._ p. 481 _More Observations of ~Ethiopia~, by Father ~Lobo~, Father ~Alvarez~, Father ~Tellez~, and others; extracted from their ~Portuguese~ voyages._ p. 487 [Illustration] [Illustration] Dr _Leonhart Rauwolff_’s TRAVELS INTO THE Eastern Countries. In which is chiefly treated, how he got into _Syria_, and what strange things he there saw and observed. PART. I. CHAP. I. _Which way I went first of all, from ~Augspurg~ to ~Marseilles~, and from thence shipped over the seas towards ~Tripoli~ of ~Syria~, situated in ~Phœnicia~._ I having always had a natural inclination, almost from my infancy, to travel into foreign Countries, but chiefly into the Eastern ones, which have been of old celebrated for fertility, which were cultivated by the most ancient people, and whose princes in former ages, have been the most potent monarchs of the world; not only to observe their lives, manners and customs, but chiefly to gain a clear and distinct knowledge of those delicate herbs, described by _Theophrastus_, _Dioscorides_, _Avicenna_, _Serapio_, &c. by viewing them in their proper and native places, partly that I might more exactly describe them, especially the most strange and rare; partly also, to provoke the Apothecaries to endeavour to procure those that are necessary for them to have in their shops: I strove always to put this my desire into execution, but was forced to defer it until, in the year of our Lord 1573, I found an opportunity, by my honour’d brother-in-law Mr _Melchior Manlick_, senior, which was very convenient. He received me presently, (having before a design to increase the number of them that were employ’d in his trade) and fitted me out for my voyage, that I might go with the first company that should travel for _Marseilles_, and then from thence farther in one of their ships to _Tripoli_, situated in that part of _Syria_ which is call’d _Phœnicia_. After that my honour’d friend, Mr _Frederick Rentzen_, of that same city, was come to me, we set out the _18th_ of _May_, _Anno 1573_, from _Augspurg_ towards _Lindaw_, designing to go through _Piedmont_ to _Milan_ and _Nissa_, and so farther: The same day we came to _Mindelheim_, a very pleasant town with a princely castle, situated upon the _Mindel_, then belonging to the baron of _Frundsberg_. The _19th_ at noon we came to _Memmingen_, a very pleasant city of the empire, and at night to _Leutkirch_.