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The names of such countries as I, Anthonie Ienkinson, haue trauelled vnto, from the second of October 1546, at which time I made my first voiage out of England, vntill the yeere of our Lord 1572, when I returned last out of Russia

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First, I passed into Flanders, and trauelled through all the base countries) and from thence through Germanie: passing ouer the Alpes, I trauelled into Italy, and from thence made my iourney through Piemont into France, throughout all which realme I haue thoroughly iourneied.

I haue also trauelled through the kingdoms of Spaine and Portingall, I haue sailed through the Leuant seas euery way, & haue bene in all the chiefe Islands within the same sea, as Rhodes, Malta, Sicilia, Cypres, Candie, and diuers othars.

I haue bene in many partes of Grecia, Morea, Achaia, and where the olde citie of Corinth stood.

I haue trauelled through a great part of Turkie, Syria, and diuers other countries in Asia minor.

I haue passed ouer the mountaines of Libanus to Damasco, and trauelled through Samaria, Galile, Philistine, and Palestine, vnto Ierusalem, and so through all the holy land.

I haue bene in diuers places of Affrica, as Algiers, Cola, Bona, Tripolis, the Gollet within the gulfe of Tunis.

I haue sailed farre Northward within the Mare glaciate, where wee haue had continuall day, and sight of the Sunne ten weekes together, and that nauigation was in Norway, Lapland, Samogitia and other very strange places.

I haue trauelled through all the ample dominions of the Emperour of Eussia and Moscouia, which extende from the North sea, and the confines of Norway and Lapland, euen to the Mare Caspium.

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Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia
By Anthony Jenkinson and Other Englishmen
, pp. 341 - 343
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1886

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