Four pilgrims
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I: HIUEN-TSIANG Master of the Law; and his Perilous Journey to the Sacred Land of Buddha, a.d. CHAP. PAGE I. The Isolation of China II. Buddha and Buddhism III. An Adventurous Journey IV. Through India in the Seventh Century V. Indian Social Life in the Seventh Century VI. The Journey Home by a New and Perilous Route VII. Peaceful Days II: SÆWULF, AN ENGLISH PILGRIM TO PALESTINE I. Early Pilgrimage to Palestine II. “Dieu le Veult” III. Sæwulf’s Record III: MOHAMMED IBN ABD ALLAH, Better known as Ibn Batûta, the Greatest of Moslem Travellers, a.d. 1304–77. I. The Whirlwind from Arabia and What Followed II. A Resolute Pilgrim III. A Roundabout Pilgrimage IV. Glimpses of Arabia, Persia and East Africa in the Fourteenth Century V. To India by Way of Constantinople and the Steppes VI. An Eastern Despot VII. Perils by Land and Sea VIII. Off to Malaysia and Cathay IX. Moors of Spain and Negroes of Timbuktu IV: LUDOVICO VARTHEMA OF BOLOGNA, Renegade Pilgrim to Mecca, Foremost of Italian Travellers. I. The Great Age of the Renaissance and of Discovery II. From Venice to Damascus III. Over the Desert to Mecca IV. The Escape from the Caravan V. Certain Adventures in Arabia the Happy VII. The Pagans of Narsinga VIII. Farther India, Malaysia and the Banda Islands IX. Some Cunning Manoeuvres X. War by Land and Sea XI. The New Way Round the Cape