Born in the province of Friesland--Studies music--Intends practising as a land-surveyor--Celebrated Reiske--Engaged to accompany a scientific expedition into Arabia--Goes to Copenhagen--Appointed lieutenant of engineers--Liberality of the Danish Minister--Proceeds to Marseilles--White rainbow--Transit of Venus--Malta--Serpents--Maltese knights--Efforts to convert Niebuhr to Catholicism--Great Church of St. John--Prodigious wealth--Hospital--Sails to Smyrna--Tenedos--Attacked by dysentery--Proceeds to Constantinople--Assumes the oriental costume--Sails for Egypt--Rhodes--Turkish eating-house--Wine-drinkers--Female slaves--Amusing story--Plague--Egypt--Pompey’s pillar--Turkish merchant and the telescope--Laughable anecdote--Mr. Forskaal stripped of his breeches--Rosetta--Arrives at Cairo--The river Nile--Pirates--Bruce the traveller--Curious anecdote of robbers--The Virgin on horseback--Churches strewed with crutches--Arrives at Damietta--Boats loaded with beehives--Europeans detested at Damietta--Encountered by a young sheïkh--Visits the Pyramids--Observations on them--Sets out for Suez--Advantages of travelling on dromedaries--Trade of Suez--Rose of Jericho--Mountain of Inscriptions--Arab women--Is refused admission into the monastery of St. Catherine--Deserted by his guides--Ascends a portion of Mount Sinai--Voyage from Suez to Jidda--Black eunuch--Elim--Is protected by some Janizaries--Emerald mountains--Forskaal taken for a physician--Laughable story--Ship in danger of being set on fire--Indiscreet curiosity--Jidda--Custom-house extortions--Forbidden to approach the Mecca gate--Curious method of catching wild ducks--Sails for Loheia--Yemen--Bedouins--Politeness of the emir--Hospitable treatment--Curiosity of the Arabs--Dr. Cramer requested to prescribe for the emir’s horse--Amusing anecdote of two young Arabs--Great coffee emporium of Beit el-Fakih--Description of the coffee plantations--Danger of travelling by day--Niebuhr is mistaken for an Arab--Is supposed to be searching for gold--Balm of Mecca--Is seized with illness--Mokha--Ludicrous anecdote--Death of Von Haven--Of Forskaal--Difficulty of obtaining a place of burial--Polite reception at Sana--Obtains an audience of the imam--Sails for India--Arrives at Bombay--Death of Baurenfeind--Forwards his manuscripts to Copenhagen--Sails for the Persian gulf--Phosphoric fires--Troop of dolphins--History of Nadir Shah--Sir W. Jones--Visits Shiraz--Superstition respecting manner of killing a fowl--Visits a Turkoman camp--Anecdote--Arrives at Shiraz--Hospitable reception by an Englishman--Palace--Persepolis--Arab sheïkh--Dialogue with the moollah of a mosque respecting marriage--Ruins of Babylon--Proceeds with a Jewish caravan--Turkish firman--Devil worshippers--Cowardice of his companions--Adventure with an Arab sheïkh--Dr. Patrick Russel--Oriental Christians--Visits Palestine--Mount Taurus--Baber Khan--Returns to Europe--Arrives