ABSTRACT
Information in Ptolemy’s Geography—Marco Polo—Narrative of Nicoli di Conti—Athanasius Nikitin, a Russian traveller—Hieronimo di Santo Stefano—Ludovico di Varthema—Portuguese in Pegu—Ferdinand Mendez Pinto—Cæsar Fredericke of Venice—Gasparo Balbi—Ralph Fitch—Nicolas Pimenta—Peter Williamson Floris—Sebastian Manrique in Arakan—Dutch and British traders in Pegu.
