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View of the walls of Baghdad. Down to the 19th century, Baghdad was often, yet erroneously, identified with ancient Babylon. Recent excavations, however, have showed that Babylon stood on the opposite shore of Tigres river.
Example of Kalmyk settlement.
View of Yerevan, Armenia.
View of the old town of Kandahar, with the fortress of Shah Hussain Hotaki.
Top: Kiosk in a banana tree forest. Bottom: Map of Bandar Abbash and nearby islands at the straits of Hormuz, Iran.
The deer from whose glands musk is extracted.
Cobra snake.
Gymnosophists near temples in India. 6: The author and a Dutch officer explore the lodgings of an itinerant fakir.
Pagodas at the kingdom of Tonkin (Vietnam). In the foreground, gymnosophists and priests in ceremonial dress doing their prayers.
Top: The king of Tonkin (Vietnam) exits the palace. Bottom: The king of Tonkin (Vietnam) leaves for war.
Procession which escorts the queen mother or the queen of Tonkin as they exit the palace.
Carriages with livestock and other provisions leave Hanoi. They are destined to feed the soldiers and other followers of the funeral procession of the king of Tonkin (Vietnam).
Top: Kiosk in banana tree forest. Bottom: Map of Bandar Abbash and nearby islands at the straits of Hormuz, Iran.
Carriage at the streets of Moscow.
A carriage transported across river in Russia.
The author's carriage crossing the stepe of Kuban, Russia.
Tatar of Astrakhan area (Nagoy tribe) travels in traditional vehicle.
Ruins of Greek Orthodox monastery at Chatyr-Dan mountain range near Simferopol, Crimea.
Tomb of British prison reformer John Howard at Kerch, Crimea.
View of Chatyr-Dan mountain range near Simferopol, Crimea.
View of the village of Marathon.
Delphi, the highest summit of Mount Dirfi in Euboea, as seen from Mount Helicon.
View of Mount Parnassus from the northwest.
Ancient funerary monuments at Thermopylae.
View of Mount Olympus, Thessaly.
Landscape at Platamon. In the background, Mount Olympus.
Landscape at Serres.
Inn near Kavala.
Frontispiece with themes related to the author's journey.
Procession accompanying the Sultan from Topkapi Palace to the mosque.