Browne's narrative contains many medical observations of interest, and gives valuable advice as to the mode of travelling in Africa, with particulars of the animals, fish, metals, and plants of Darfur. We do not give them here, because they do not contain anything of special interest for us.
CHAPTER III.
ASIA AND ITS INHABITANTS.
Witzen's account of Tartary--China as described by the Jesuits and Father Du Halde--Macartney in China--Stay at Chu-Sang--Arrival at Nankin--Negotiations--Reception of the Embassy by the Emperor--Fêtes and ceremonies at Zhe Hol--Return to Pekin and Europe--Volney-- Choiseul Gouffier--Le Chevalier in Troas--Olivier in Persia--A semi-Asiatic country--Pallas's account of Russia.
At the end of the seventeenth century, a traveller named Nicolas Witzen had explored
