ABSTRACT
Besides the travels of the pilgrims, the Vikings, and the Arabs in our period, there were two other types of travellers who added considerably to the knowledge of the world among the Western peoples, namely the Jews, among whom Benjamin of Tudela 1 may be considered the most prominent, and the German merchants and warriors in the Baltic,2 a category of travellers which is not mentioned in Professor C. R. Beazley's Dawn of Modern Geography, otherwise so rich in information and so stimUlating for further research.
