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.

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.