1785-1851
Naturalist, painter and traveller. Born in Santo Domingo. Spent most of his life in the United States.

1755-1834
French soldier of fortune calling himself "General Perron". Served in India.

1868-1937
British soldier (RE). Railway and boundary surveys in India, Uganda, Western Abyssinia.
- Autobiographical works include: "Among swamps and giants in Equatorial Africa." 1902.

d. 1865
Naval officer (joined 1813). With PARRY 1824-5. Led an expedition in search of FRANKLIN 1850-1 with second ship commanded by OMMANEY (Sir, E.) and tender by OSBORN. Account by Osborn MM #912-915.

At the instance of Pedro de MENDOZA, founder of Buenos Aires, he explored up the Paranà River in the footsteps of Alejo GARCIA. Ayolas was killed, but the survivors of his party subsequently founded Asuncion, the present capital of Paraguay, for which town the Buenos Aires settlement was later abandoned.

- "Narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South Africa." London / 1844. Repr. London / (cat. 1969) / Frank Cass.

1815-1888
Arabist, government chaplain and interpreter.
- "The Nestorians and their rituals." 2 vols. London / 1852. Repr. cat.1970 /Gregg.

1766-1818
Spanish traveller, Mediterranean, Maghreb, Near east 1802-1807. Visited Mecca in 1807 under the pseudonym Ali Bey. Died in Syria.
- "Travels of Ali Bey in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria and Turkey...." 2 vols. London /1816. Repr. cat.1970 /Gregg.

Russian. Laptev and Greenland Seas in Georgiy Sedov 1937-1940.

- (Tr.) "The brigands of the Morea: the captivity of S. Soteropoulos." 2 vols. 1868.