Celebrated Travels and Travellers by Jules Verne. Page: 2
ON, CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET.
1881. [All rights reserved.]
TO DR. G. G. GARDINER, I Dedicate this Translation WITH SINCERE AND GRATEFUL ESTEEM.
N. D'ANVERS. HENDON, Christmas, 1880.
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.
In offering the present volume to the English public, the Translator wishes to thank the Rev. Andrew Carter for the very great assistance given by him in tracing all quotations from English, German, and other authors to the original sources, and for his untiring aid in the verification of disputed spellings, &c.
THE GREAT EXPLORERS OF THE 19TH CENTURY.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
REPRODUCED IN FAC-SIMILE FROM THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, GIVING THE SOURCES WHENCE THEY ARE DERIVED.
PART THE FIRST. PAGE Map of the work which had to be done in the 19th Century Frontispiece
Jerusalem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Map of Egypt, Nubia, and part of Arabia To face woodcut of Jerusalem
Portrait of Burckhardt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
"Here is thy grave" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Merchant of Jeddah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Shores and boats of the Red Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Map of English India and part of Persia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Bridge of rope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
"They were seated according to age" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Beluchistan warriors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
"A troop of bayadères came in" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Afghan costumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Persian costumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
"Two soldiers held me" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
"Fifteen Ossetes accompanied me" . . .