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Benjamin of Tudela (d. 1173) A Jewish traveler. "He was the first European who gave information respecting the distant East. He made a journey from about 1160 to 1173 (in which year he died) from Saragossa, through southern France, Italy, and Greece, to Palestine, Persia, and the borders of China, returning by way of Khuzistan, the Indian Ocean, and Yemen to Egypt, Sicily, and Spain." (The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. III , New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 141.)
Jules Verne, The Exploration of the World (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879) 32. (Benjamin of Tudela in the desert of Sahara.)
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