Chap. II. 
of the East Indies. 
SECTION XVIII. 
An Account of the ’Travels of two Mohammedans through India and China, in thet 
ninth Century . 
Tranflated from the Arabick by the Abbe Renaudot, 
t. A Concife Account of the original Editor of thefe Voyages , and of the Works which rendered him famous , 
2. 'The Antiquity of thefe Relations , and of the Manufcript from which they were tranflated. 3. Of the 
Sea (f Herkend, and of the Iflands therein . 4. Of the Ifland of Serandib, or Ceylon 5 the Riches it con- - 
te'zr, and the Manners of its Inhabitants . 5. Off J ever al other Iflands , particularly thofe of Andaman, 
the Inhabitants of which eat human Flefh . 6. Of an Ifland in which are Silver Mines , other extra- 
ordinary Things in thefe Seas . 7. 0 / 7/7 of China, and of the RefpeB fhewn there to the Mo- 
hammedans. 8. M wry clear and diftinB Account of the Navigation to China, which is probably the 
flrfl Account of it that was ever publifhed . 9. O/' Ifland in which there are no Women feen. 10. Of 
the Port of Canfu in China, and of the Irregularity of the Tides there, n. Of many remarkable Things 
obferyed in the Countries touched at in this Voyage to China. 12. The Cufloms and Manners qj the Chinefe 
in Civil and Religious Affairs. 13. An Account of the four great Kings , viz. the KhalifF, the Emperor 
of China, the Emperor of the Greeks, and the Balhara of the Indies. 14. A fuccinB Account of fever al 
other Kingdoms in the Indies. 1 5. The Account of China refumed , the Number of the Cities in that 
Empire^ and the extraordinary Difcipline maintained in them. 1 6. Of the Burials of the Chinefe, and 
of their domeflick Affairs. 17. Of the Power of the Vice-Roys , and of the Emperor a/', C hina. 180 Of 
the publick Revenues of the . Chinefe Empire. 19. Of the Paffes requiflte for travelling through that 
Country . 20. Of the Adminiftration of Juftice in China. 21. Their Laws with regard to Bankrupts . 
22. Other wife Regulations praBifed in that Country. 23. Mifcellaneous Cufloms among the Chinefe* 
24. Of the Methods praBifed for dif covering Truth in Trials in the Indies. 25. Some other extraordi- 
nary Cufloms among the Indians. 26. The Vices of the Chinefe, and the P uni foment of bad Governors 
among them. 27. Several Laws in India and China. 28. Strange Cufloms that prevail among the In- 
habitants of both Countries. 29. A Comparifon between India and China. 30 .Of other Countries bor- 
dering upon China. 31. The Preface of the fecond Author in Confirmation of what the former had deli- 
vered. 32.. The Hi ft or y of a great Revolution in China, by the Rebellion of one Baichu. 33. The Em- 
peror of China reftored , and the Declenflon of that Empire . 34. Of various Punijhments in ufe among 
^Chinefe, 35. A curious Account of the Maintenance of publick Women in China. 36. Of various 
Regulations in the Chinefe Empire. 37. Of the Excellence of the Chinefe Painters. 38. The Hijtory 
of Eben Wahab, an Arab, who made a Voyage into Perfia. 39. His Conference with the Emperor . 
40. Some very fingular Paffages in relation to the Knowledge of the Emperor , with regard to the Reli- 
gions in other Countries. 41. Concluflon of. the Arab 7 Conference with the Emperor of China. 42. Other 
Cir cum ft ances from that Traveller' s Relation. 43. Of the Communication between the Oeean and the 
Mediterranean. . 44. Of the Province of Zapage, and of the Commodities it produces. 45. A remarkable 
Story of an ancient Prince of this Country. 46. The War between the King of Komar and the King of 
Zapage. 47. The Concluflon of that War. 48. Of the DoBrine of the Metempfychofis , or Tranfrmgra- 
tion of Souls , with a remarkable Story on that SubjeB. 49. A mofl fingular AB of Juftice done by the 
Emperor of China, on behalf of an Arabian Merchant , againft his Favourite. . 50. The great Care taken 
with refpeB to the Adminiftration of Juftice in China. 51 .Of the Situation of the Province of C ho- 
raffaru 52. Of the Animal that produces Mujk 3 the Reafon why the Mujk <?/ Thibet is better Than that 
of China, and of the feveral Sorts of that Perfume. 53. Of certain Cufloms in China that refemble thofe 
°J th f Arabs - 54 - Cuftom of the Indians to burn themf elves on particular Occafions , and of their great 
Conflancy in ABs of this Nature . 5 5. An incredible Story of the defperate Courage of a certain Indian. 
56. Other Inftances of the fame Nature. 57. Of the immenfe Riches of Serandib, or Ceylon, and of the 
Laws of that Country . 58. Of the flagrant Vices , and exceflive Debauchery of thofe People en Of 
toe rainy Seafon in the Indies. 60. Of the Indian Brachmans and Penitents. 61. Monftn ous Errors 
proceeding from religious Mi flakes. 62. Ships built , rigg’d, and laden from a Plantation of Cacoa Trees. 
63. Of the Country of the Zinges, or Negroes , with an Account of thofe People. 64. Of the Ifland of 
Socotra, and its ProduBions. 65. Of the different Seas omitted in the former Relation. 66. Of the 
Riches of the Indian Ocean. 67. Of the Formation of Pearl , according to the Notion of the Arabs. 
U. A very fingular Story on^ the foregoing SubjeB . 69. Some farther Particulars as to the Cuftoms of 
the In f^ ns : 7 °- The Ufe of this SeBion with regard to the Hiftory of the Indies in the ninth Century . 
71. Additional Remarks and Obfervations. J 
*np HE natural, eafy, and certain Method 
i of attaining a perfect Knowledge of the Difco- 
. 7““ c venes made in the Eaji-lndies , is unqueftiona- 
b tnac °i reading the beft Voyages and Travels into thofe 
I ait*., in tne Order of Time in which they were made 3 
for by this means they iiluftrate each other, and ferve as a 
kmo of Commentaries, deliver the Hiftory of Places and 
a erfons with the leaft poflible Corfu lion, and fhow us at 
Cne _ different State or the Countries mentioned in 
L ern in different Peripds of Time, and the Advances that 
A u mb. 3 6. 
were made in perfecting the Knowledge of thofe Coun- 
tries by fuch as undertook to go thither, and to report 
what they had feen and heard, for the Information of 
others and of Pofterity. Of all the Travellers into thefe 
Parts of the World, whofe Writings are ftill preferved, 
thofe which are contained in this SeCtion, are beyond all 
doubt the moft ancient, and in that refped, as well as in 
many otheis, extremely curious, lo render thefe as clear 
and as intelligible as is poflible to our Readers, we Ilia 11 
firft give fome Memoirs of that eminent French Critick 
P who 
