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| Cathay and the way thither : vol.2 | |
| 中国および中国への道 : vol.2 |
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引用情報
INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. 429
HAKKAR,l On the 12th September, 1353, reaching Fez, and the termination of those at least of his wanderings which are recorded, in the beginning of 1354, after they had lasted for eight and twenty years, and had extended over a length of at least 75,000 English miles.2
Soon after this the history of his travels was committed to writing under orders from the Sultan, but not by the traveller's own hand. It would appear, indeed, that he had at times kept notes of what he saw, for in one passage he speaks of having been robbed of them. But a certain Mahomed Ibn. Juzai, the Sultan's Secretary, was employed to reduce the story to writing as Ibn Batuta told it, (not however without occasionally embellishing it by quotations and pointless anecdotes of his own), and this work was brought to a conclusion on the 13th December, 1355, just about the time that John Marignolli was putting his reminiscences of Asia into a Bohemian Chronicle. The editor, Ibn Juzai concludes thus :-
" Here ends what I have put into shape from the memoranda of the Shaikh Abu Abdallah Mahomed Ibn Batuta, whom may God honour ! No person of intelligence can fail to see that this Shaikh is the Traveller of Our Age ; and he who should call him the Traveller of the whole Body of Islam would not go beyond the truth."
Ibn Batuta long survived his amanuensis, and died in 1377-78, at the age of seventy-three.
The first detailed information communicated to Europe regarding his travels was published in a German periodical, about 1808, by Seetzen,3 who had obtained an abridgment of the work in the
1 Melle, south of Timbuktu, Gogo or Gago, on the Niger, south-east of the same, Takadda, Hogar, and Tawat, are all I think to be found in Dr. Barth's Map in the J. R. G. S. for 1860, but I have it not accessible at present. It is remarkable that the Catalan Map of 1375 contains most of these Central African names, viz., Tagaza, Melli, Tenbuch, Geugeu. The first three are also mentioned by Cadamosto.
2 This is the result of a rough compass measurement, without any allowance for deviations or for the extensive journeys he probably made during his eight years' stay in India, etc.
3 The proper title of the book is, "A Gift for the Observing, wherein are set forth the Curiosities of Cities and the Wonders of Travel."
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