Cover -- CONTENTS -- VOLUME I -- PREFACE -- ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE COSMOGRAPHICAL IDEAS OF MANDEVILLE'S DAY -- NOTE ON THE EGERTON TEXT -- THE EGERTON TEXT -- PROLOGUE -- 1. THE WAY TO CONSTANTINOPLE -- 2. THE CROSS AND CROWN OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST -- 3. OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE FAITH OF THE GREEKS -- 4. OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST AND THE DAUGHTER OF YPOCRAS -- 5. OF CYPRUS, THE WAY FROM CYPRUS TO JERUSALEM, AND THE FOSSE OF SAND -- 6. OF THE NAMES OF THE SULTANS AND THE TOWER OF BABYLON -- 7. OF EGYPT, CAIRO, THE PHOENIX, THE INCUBATORS OF CHICKENS, ADAM'S APPLES AND PHARAOH'S FIGS, THE BALSAM GARDEN, AND THE GARNERS OF JOSEPH -- 8. OF SICILLY, MT SINAL, AND THE CHURCH OF ST. KATHERINE -- 9. OF THE DESERT, THE BEDOUINS, THE DRY TREE, AND HOW ROSES FIRST CAME INTO THE WORLD, BETHLEHAM -- 10. OF JERUSALEM AND THE HOLY PLACES -- 11. OF THE SULTAN'S LETTERS, AND TEMPLE, KING HEROD -- MT SION, PROBATICA PISCINA, NATATORIUM SILOE, TORRENS CEDRON, JERICHO -- 12. OF THE DEAD SEA, JORDAN, THE HEAD OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, AND THE USAGES OF THE SAMARITANS -- 13. OF GALILEE, ANTICHRIST, NAZARETH, MT TABOR, THE AGE OF OUR LADY, THE DAY OF DOOM, AND THE CUSTOMS OF THE JACOBITES, SYRIANS, AND THE USAGES OF GEORGIANS -- 14. OF DAMASCUS, THE RIVER SABATORY, OF THE THREE WAYS TO JERUSALEM, AND OF TARTART -- 15. OF THE SARACENS AND THIER LAW, TJE COLLOQUY WITH THE SULTAN, MAHOMET AND HIS LAW -- 16. OF ALBANIA, LIBYA, THE CASTLE OF THE SPARROWHAWK, AND NOAH'S ARK -- 17. OF THE LAND OF JOB, THE ARRAY OF THE CHALDEANS, THE AMAZONS, ETHOPIA, AND THE VIRTUE OF THE DIAMOND -- 18. OF THE ISLES OF INDIA, THE STITCHED SHIPS, OF IDOLS AND SIMULACRES, THE PEPPER FOREST, AND THE WELL OF YOUTH, THE WORSHIP OF THE OX -- 19. OF ST. THOMAS' DOOMS, THE SACRIFICE TO IDOLS, THE JUGGERNAUT CAR -- 20. OF THE ISLE OF LAMARY AND THE SHAPE OF THE EARTH.

21. OF THE KING OF JAVA, OF TREES BEARING MEAL, HONEY, AND VENOM, OF THE ISLE OF CALANOK, THE MIRACLE OF THE FISHES, GIANT SNAILS, DOG-FACED PEOPLE, CROCODILES, AND OTHER MARVELS -- 22. OF CANNIBALS, MONSTERS, THE CITY OF CASSAY AND THE PIGMIES -- 23. OF THE GREAT CHAN OF CATHAY AND HIS COURT -- 24. OF THE NAMES OF THE GREAT CHAN AND HIS SEAL -- 25. OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE GREAT CHAN'S COURT, HIS FEASTS, AND HOW HE RIDES ABROAD -- 26. OF THE MANNERS OF THE TARTARS, THE GREAT CHAN'S DEATH AND BURIAL, AND THE ELECTION OF HIS SUCCESSOR -- 27. OF THARSE, AND THE LANDS AND KINGDOMS ABOUT CATHAY -- 28. OF PERSIA, AND THE LAND OF DARKNESS, TURKEY AND CHALDEA -- 29. OF OTHER COUNTRIES AND LANDS ABOUT CATHAY, THE VEGTABLE LAMB, THE ENCLOSED PEOPLE, AND THE GRIFFINS -- 30. OF PRESTER JOHN, THE LOADSTONE ROCKS, THE GRAVELLY SEA, THE EPMEMBRAL TREES, AND THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN -- 31. OF THE VALLEY PERILOUS, GIANTS, STRANGE MARRIAGE CUSTOMS, BASILISKS, CROCODILES, GIRAFFES, AND OTHER MATTERS -- 32. OF THE BRAHMANS, THE TREES OF THE SUN AND THE MOON, AND WHY PRESTER JOHN IS SO CALLED -- 33. OF GOLD-DIGGING ANTS. PARADISE AND THE FOUR RIVERS OF PARADISE -- 34. OF THE CUSTOMS OF CERTAIN PEOPLES, RYBOTH [TIBBET], AND THE RICH CHINAMAN: THE EPILOGUE -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- I. SHIELD OF SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE, PEREGRINATOR -- MAPS -- THE HOLY LAND -- SKETCH MAP, SHOWING THE EXTENT OF MANDEVILLE'S TRAVELS.

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