Ray, John 1627-1705 creator Rauwolf, Leonhard 1535-1596 Belon, Pierre 1517?-1564 Staphorst, Nicolaus 1679-1731 text utu 2025 Second edition corrected and improved monographic en la 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Mr. Ray's travels, Vol. 2 : A collection of curious travels and voyages.…." by John Ray is a collection of travel narratives and natural history observations written in the mid-18th century. It gathers translated journeys and reports focused on the Levant and wider Ottoman world—Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Arabia, and Ethiopia—emphasizing geography, customs, trade, and plants. Readers will find firsthand itineraries enriched with ethnographic detail and long botanical lists compiled from multiple travelers. The opening of this volume lays out an extensive table of contents and then begins Dr. Leonhart Rauwolf’s travelogue into the Eastern Mediterranean. He states his botanical aims, travels overland from Augsburg to Marseilles noting towns and plants, and then undertakes a stormy, wind-driven passage past Sardinia, Sicily, Crete, and Cyprus, including a brief audience with an Ottoman officer at Salamis, before reaching Tripoli. On arrival he describes a scuffle at the gate and then sketches Tripoli’s setting, irrigated gardens and fruits, flat-roofed houses, narrow paved streets, caravanserais, and especially the public baths and their routines (washing, depilation, and massage). He surveys trade and governance: European consuls and fondiques, bustling bazaars, silk and raisin commerce, soap and potash making from local halophytic plants, coinage, and the roles of Ottoman officials and courts, with examples of both punishments and corruption alongside avenues of appeal. Rauwolf also notes everyday manners—dress, music and games, washing habits, women’s seclusion and cemetery visits, and funeral customs. The section closes by starting a catalog of local flora around Tripoli, from shore plants to ricinus, squills, and sugar-canes. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Stirpium orientalium : Rariorum catalogi tres. (44 pp. at end of work) Release date is 2025-05-30 Charlene Taylor, Adrian Mastronardi, David Garcia. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Originally published: London: J. Walthoe : D. Midwinter : A. Bettesworth et al, 1738 Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800 Plants -- Classification -- Early works to 1800 Middle East -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 Botany -- Pre-Linnean works Greece -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 Africa -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 G London: J. Walthoe : D. Midwinter : A. Bettesworth et al, 1738 https://archive.org/details/acollectioncuri00goog/page/n8/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76193 https://archive.org/details/acollectioncuri00goog/page/n8/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76193 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134749.0 76193