"رحلات في مناطق مختلفة من أفريقيا وآسيا العظمى لبضع سنوات. وصف إمبراطوريات بلاد فارس وهندوستان خاصةً: بالتداخل مع بعض الأحداث الهامة كما دارت في تلك المناطق أثناء تلك العصور اللاحقة. كذلك الأمر بالنسبة إلى الممالك الشهيرة الغنية الأخرى في الهند الشرقية والجزر المجاورة. والربط بين ديانة ولغة وعادات وأعراف كل منها على حدة: بالإضافة إلى ذكر ملاحظات صحيحة عن كل منها." [‎٣‎١‎٢] (٤٤٨/٣٣٥)

Qojfee. Opium.
fins the tedious thoughts of travel, and rarely for fome dayes deceiving the body of its
feafonable reft and lodging. Opium, Coffee, the root of Betele, tears of Poppy, and
Tabaco, condenfe the fpirits and make them ftrong and alegre ; which both make the
Perfuns believe they expel fear, and enable them to run continually. In America their
difpatches by foot-men differ not from our way of poftage by horfes from ftage toftage-,
for in Peru, the Indian Inguas or Kings fetled their ftage 8 miles afunder, fo as a foot-
man conveying letters from one ftage to another without intermiffion, in 24 hours
would run 50 leagues or of our miles one hundred and fifty, Liyfm 59. Epifi. 3. Centi
And how ftrange ibever this report of the Foot-pofts abftinence may feem, yet this out
of Miz.aldui cent. 2, 55. agrees with it/, Avicenna refert quendam peregre profetturtm, libram
unam olei violacei cum adipe mixti bihiffe, & inediam ahfyue ulla fame decern dierum fufiimijff,
Olympodorm of Alexandria alfo writes That in his time a certain man lived without fleep,
having nothing elfe to fuftain nature fave the air and light of the Sun. And Befides the
foporiferous pellets which the Foot-man chawed, pedihm timor addidit alas . But however,
myfterious it be, I perfwade not every man to imitate Vellem the Epicure^ who feared
nothing fo much, as to doubt of any thing. Now this relation of their fhoutars orzan-
tells, i. e. foot-pofts peradventure may gain credit but with few, give me leave therefore
to offer fome Examples of the like kind, Diodorus Sic. I. 19. In rebus Bumenis ait, Cum ilk
milites & arma expediret, quofdam Per far urn qui triginta diemm Jpatio abeffenty illoeodem die
comovijfe, &c. The march of his army was in one day made known to fome Perfiam
who were then 30 dayes travel thence. Intelligence probably given by fignes made by
men purpofely placed upon the tops of mountains (as our Beacons be) or by voyces
tranfmitted from place to place, and where conveniency was by trunks or hollow places
in walls, as was ufual with the Romans in Britain and other Provinces. Perfis (faith the
Hiftorian) pierage montana eft & njallihm interrupt a in montibm, opportunis locisfunt JpecnU,
in quibus confifunt homines maxim# locales, (^curfores Angarij in lib' 8. Herodoti j JpicuU an-
tern ita dhift, quantum vox ah una ad alteram venire & excipi poteft. Re igitur nuncianda, mm
exclamat proximo , Hie alteri, & fie deinceps per omnes Satrapm ad extrma Regni. Nmero
vere triginta dierum, &c.