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CELEBRATED TRAVELS AND TRAVELLERS.
THE EXPLORATION OF THE WORLD.




[Frontispiece: TRANSLATED BY DORA LEIGH]




CELEBRATED TRAVELS AND TRAVELLERS.
THE EXPLORATION OF THE WORLD.

BY JULES VERNE




WITH 59 ILLUSTRATIONS BY L. BENETT AND P. PHILIPPOTEAUX,
AND 50 FAC-SIMILES OF ANCIENT DRAWINGS.




[Illustration: _TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH._]




London:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON,
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET.
1882.
[_All rights reserved._]




Celebrated Travels and Travellers,
BY JULES VERNE.

_In Three Vols., demy 8vo, each containing 400 pages and upwards of
100 Illustrations, price 12s. 6d. each; cloth extra, gilt edges,
14s._

Part I. The Exploration of the World.
Part II. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century.
Part III. The Great Navigators of the Nineteenth Century.




EXPLORATION OF THE WORLD.




LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
REPRODUCED IN FAC-SIMILE FROM THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS,
GIVING THE SOURCES WHENCE THEY ARE DERIVED.


FIRST PART.

Map of the World as known to the Ancients.

Approach to Constantinople. Anselmi Banduri Imperium orientale, tome
II., p. 448. 2 vols. folio. Parisiis, 1711.

Map of the World according to Marco Polo's ideas. Vol. I., p. 134 of
the edition of Marco Polo published in London by Colonel Yule, 2
vols. 8vo.

Plan of Pekin in 1290. Yule's edition. Vol. I., p. 332.

Portrait of Jean de Bethencourt. "The discovery and conquest of the
Canaries." Page 1, 12mo. Paris, 1630.

Plan of Jerusalem. "Narrative of the journey beyond seas to the Holy
Sepulchre of Jerusalem," by Antoine Regnant, p. 229, 4to. Lyons,
1573.

Prince Henry the Navigator. From a miniature engraved in "The
Discoveries of Prince Henry the Navigator," by H. Major. 8vo. London,
1877.

Christopher Columbus. Taken from "Vitae illustrium virorum," by Paul
Jove. Folio. Basileae, Perna.

Imaginary view of Seville. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages, pl. I., part
IV.

Building of a caravel. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages, Americae, part
IV., plate XIX.

Christopher Columbus on board his caravel. Th. de Bry. Grands
Voyages, Americae, part IV., plate VI.

Embarkation of Christopher Columbus. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages,
Americae, part IV., plate VIII.

Map of the Antilles and the Gulf of Mexico. Th. de Bry. Grands
Voyages, Americae, part V.

Fishing for Pearl oysters. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages, Americae,
part IV., plate XII.

Gold-mines in Cuba. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages, Americae, part V.,
plate I.

Vasco da Gama. From an engraving in the Cabinet des Estampes of the
Bibl. Nat.

La Mina. "Histoire generale des Voyages," by the Abbe Prevost. Vol.
III., p. 461, 4to. 20 vols. An X. 1746.

Map of the East Coast of Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to the
Cape del Gado. From the French map of the Eastern Ocean, published
in 1740 by order of the Comte de Maurepas.

Map of Mozambique. Bibl. Nat. Estampes.

Interview with the Zamorin. "Hist. Gen. des Voyages," by Prevost.
Vol. I., p. 39. 4to. An X. 20 vols. 1746.

View of Quiloa. From an engraving in the Cabinet des Estampes.
Topography. (Africa).

Map of the Coasts of Persia, Guzerat, and Malabar. From the French
Map of the Eastern Ocean, pub. in 1740 by order of the Comte de
