Early Voyages and Travels in the Levant; I.--The Diary of Master Thomas Dallam, 1599-1600. II.--Extracts from the Diaries of Dr. John Covel, 1670-1679. With Some Account of the Levant Company of Turkey Merchants. The Hakluyt Society, First Series, No. 87.

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