Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the originaldocument have been preserved.
Manus Island, page 202. No location named. Should probably be East Indies.
Gulf of Kas, page 195. Missing longitude.
Fitze-long Bay, page 187. Wrong map coordinates.
The Index lists Dharmapuri, Diggi, Kang-ping and Radhan as having Glossary entries which do not exist.
Alternative spellings of Ibn Batuta include Batutu, Batatu, and Batouka.
Inconsistencies between latitude and longitude in the Index and the Glossary have been left as printed, including Ajmere, Bahera, Bitlis, Carmel, the Dead Sea, Deogarh, Dharwar, Diarbekr, Dondra Head, Elichpur, Hugli, Kagoshima, and Kamagawa.
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