Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c4.s2.t4.3

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¹ Among the published accounts of these travellers, Sir Henry Yuse's edition of Marco Polo is well known. A new version of Marco Polo was rendered into English by John Frampton in the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1579 A.D.) and is now available in Penzer's edition. This edition also includes a new and in some ways a more complete version of Nicolo Conti which considerably improves upon the one contained in Major's ‘India in the fifteenth century.’ Another summary of Conti's conversation with Pero Tefur about India appears in the latter's travels published under the ‘Broadways Travellers Series’. The account of Mahuan was translated by George Phillip and published in J.R.A.S. 1895-1896. The accounts of ‘Abd-u-Razzaq, Stephano, and Nikitin are contained in Major's book referred to above and published by the Hakluyt Society. A complete English translation of Ibn Batuta is not yet available and I have based my study on the Arabic text published from Cairo in 1870-1 A.D. The English translations of Varthema and Barbosa have already been published by the Hakluyt Society, London. By account of Sidi ‘Ali Reis is available in the English rendering of Vambery. A new and better translation is, however, in the course of publication.