ca.1459-1507
German cosmographer. B. Nuremberg, lived in Portugal and the Azores ca.1484-1490. Claimed to have accompanied Diego CAM on a voyage as far as the mouth of the Congo in 1484-85. On his return to N. constructed his globe world-map. Biog. - Ravenstein, E.G.: "Martin Behaim: his lidfe and globe." London / 1908 / George Philip & Sons.

Missionary (LMS). Malacca, 1790-1844.

1800-1874
Abyssinia, Blue Nile (1840-3), Syria and Palestine (1861-2), Mission to Theodore to plead for release of captives (1864)*, Arabia (1873-4).
- "Abyssinia." 1845.
- "Sources of the Nile." 1860.
- "Discoveries of Sinai in Arabia and of Midian." Posth. pub. (-1878).
*See also: RASSAM, BLANC.

Quito to Bogota, 1536-9.

American journalist. China. Contemporary of Edgar Snow and Owen Lattimore.
- "China shakes the world."

- "Gleanings from a tour in Palestine and the East." London / 1887.

1868-1926.
Traveller, archaeologist, Arabist, civil servant, pub. travel books.
- "Safer Nameh" (--tr) 1894.
- "Syria: the desert and the sown." 1908 / Heinemann.
- "Letters." 2 vols. 1927. (Ed. by her stepmother.)

- "Journal of a residence in Circassia, 1837-9." 2 vols. London / 1840.

See: PLOWDEN

1691-1763
Scotch physician. In Saint Petersburg, 1714. Served as doctor on embassies to Persia (1715-18, 1722) and China for Russian emp. Merchant at Constantinople 1737-ca.1746 before returning to Scotland.
- "Journey from St. Petersburg to Pekin, 1719-1722." 1763. Ed. J.L.Stevenson,1965.