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 Rh EUROPE.

Great Britain.—B.C. 450. Himilco. Circa 333. Pytheas. 60-54. Cæsar.

France.—B.C. circa 600. Marseilles founded. 57. Cæsar.

Russia.—A.D. 1554. Richard Chancellor.

Baltic.—A.D. 890. Wulfstan and Othere.

Iceland.—A.D. 861. Naddod.

ASIA.

India.—B.C. 332. Alexander. 330. Nearchus. Circa 300. Megasthenes.A.D. 400-14. Fa-hien. 518-21. Hoei-Sing and Sung-Yun. 540. Cosmas Indicopleustes. 629-46. Hiouen-Tshang. 671-95. I-tsing. 1159-73. Benjamin of Tudela. 1304-78. Ibn Batuta. 1327-72. Mandeville. 1328. Jordanus of Severac. 1328-49. John de Marignolli. 1419-40. Nicolo Conti. 1442-44. Abd-ur-Razzak. 1468-74. Athanasius Nikitin. 1487. Pedro de Covilham. 1494-99. Hieronimo di Santo Stefano. 1503-8. Ludovico di Varthema.

Farther India.—A.D. 1503. Ludovico di Varthema. 1509. Lopes di Sequira. 1886. Francis Gamier.

China.—A.D. 851-916. Suláimén and Abu Zaid. 1292. John of Monte Corvino. 1316-30. Odorico di Pordenone. 1328-49. John de Marignolli. 1537-58. Ferdinand Mendez Pinto. 1868-71. Ney Elias. 1871-88. Prjevalsky. 1878-82. Pundit Krishna. 1889. Grjmailo brothers. 1896. Prince Henri d'Orléans.

Japan.—A.D. 1542. Antonio de Mota. 1785-88. La Pérouse.

Arabia.— A.D. 1671-67. Carsten Niebuhr. 1863. Palgrave.

Persia.—B.C. 332. Alexander, A.D. 1468-74. Athanasius Nikitin.

Mongolia.—A.D. 1255. Ruysbroek (Rubruquis). 126071. Nicolo and Maffeo Polo. 1271. Marco Polo. 1893-97. Dr. Sven Hedin.

Tibet.— A.D. 1845. Huc. 1856-7. Schlagintweit. 1878. Pundit Krishna. 1887, Younghusband. 1889-90. Bonvalot and Prince Henri d'Orléans. 1893-97. Dr. Sven Hedin.

Central Asia.—A.D. 1558. Anthony Jenkinson. 1642. Wasilei Pojarkof. 1838-40. Wood. 1859. Valikhanoff. 1870. Douglas Forsyth. 1870. Fedchenko. 1880. Bonvalot. 1893, Littledale.