———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Transcriber’s note: Notes and their anchors are shown by numbers surrounded by parantheses while numbers for footnotes and their anchors are surrounded by square brackets. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— WORKS ISSUED BY The Hakluyt Society. THE BONDAGE AND TRAVELS OF JOHANN SCHILTBERGER. No. LVIII. THE BONDAGE AND TRAVELS OF JOHANN SCHILTBERGER, A NATIVE OF BAVARIA, IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA, 1396–1427. TRANSLATED FROM THE HEIDELBERG MS. EDITED IN 1859 BY PROFESSOR KARL FRIEDRICH NEUMANN, BY COMMANDER J. BUCHAN TELFER, R.N., F.S.A., F.R.G.S. With Notes by PROFESSOR P. BRUUN, OF THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH RUSSIA, AT ODESSA; AND A PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, AND NOTES BY THE TRANSLATOR AND EDITOR. Ne respice ad eum qui dixit, sed respice ad id quod dixit.—SCALIGER, _Proverb. Arab._ WITH A MAP. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY. MDCCCLXXIX. T. RICHARDS, PRINTER, 37, GREAT QUEEN STREET, W.C. FRIDERICO GVLIELMO HEREDITARIO GERMANIAE PRINCIPI HAEC NARRATIO ANGLO IDIOMATA CONSCRIPTA DE CASIBVS MISERRIMIS CVIVSDAM BAVARI MILITIS IPSIVS PRINCIPIS GRATIA ET ASSENSV REVERENTER ET IN OBSEQVI TESTIMONIAM INSCRIPSIT IOANNES BVCHAN TELFER. COUNCIL OF THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY. COLONEL H. YULE, C.B., PRESIDENT. ADMIRAL C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, C.B. } } VICE-PRESIDENTS. MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HENRY RAWLINSON, K.C.B.} W. A. TYSSEN AMHERST, ESQ. REV. DR. G. P. BADGER, D.C.L., F.R.G.S. J. BARROW, ESQ., F.R.S. WALTER DE GREY BIRCH, ESQ. E. A. BOND, ESQ. E. H. BUNBURY, ESQ. ADMIRAL SIR RICHARD COLLINSON, K.C.B. THE EARL OF DUCIE. AUGUSTUS W. FRANKS, ESQ., F.R.S. LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR J. HENRY LEFROY, C.B., K.C.M.G. R. H. MAJOR, ESQ., F.S.A. COLONEL SIR WM. L. MEREWETHER, C.B., K.C.S.I. ADMIRAL SIR ERASMUS OMMANNEY, C.B., F.R.S. LORD ARTHUR RUSSELL, M.P. THE LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEY. EDWARD THOMAS, ESQ., F.R.S. MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HENRY THUILLIER, C.S.I., F.R.S. CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, ESQ., C.B., F.R.S., SEC. R.G.S., HONORARY SECRETARY. PREFACE. “An editor, or a translator, collects the merits of different writers, and, forming all into a wreath, bestows it on his author’s tomb.”—SHENSTONE.