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CELEBRATED TRAVELS AND TRAVELLERS.
THE GREAT EXPLORERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.




LONDON: GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.




[Frontispiece: Map of the work which had to be done in the 19th
Century. _Grave par E. Morieu 23, r. de Brea Paris._]




CELEBRATED TRAVELS AND TRAVELLERS.
THE GREAT EXPLORERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

BY JULES VERNE.


TRANSLATED BY N. D'ANVERS,
AUTHOR OF "HEROES OF NORTH AFRICAN DISCOVERY," "HEROES OF SOUTH AFRICAN
DISCOVERY," ETC.


WITH 51 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY LEON BENETT, AND 57 FAC-SIMILES FROM EARLY
MSS. AND MAPS BY MATTHIS AND MORIEU.

[Illustration: Ship sailing near icebergs.]

London:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON,
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 bayaderes came in" ..................  46

Afghan costumes..........................  48

Persian costumes .........................  52

"Two soldiers held me" ......................  52

"Fifteen Ossetes accompanied me" .................  59

"He beheld the Missouri" .....................  64

Warrior of Java...................