cow, the capital of Poland; and by Breslau in
Silesia, Misnia, Eger, Ratisbon, and Freysingen, back to Munich, having
been absent for more than thirty-two years.

[1] Forster, Voy. and Disc. in the North, p. 158.

[2] About this period, many abuses subsisted among the Golden Tribe on the
Wolga. Mamay and Ideku, or Yedeghey-khan, called Edigi by
Schildtberger, had not the title of great khan of the Golden Tribe in
Kiptschak, but held in fact the supreme power in their hands, and set
up khans from among the royal family, or deposed them at their
pleasure.--Forst

[3] The names are much disfigured, and the commencement of the journey is
not mentioned; but, from the course afterwards, this may be some
corruption for Armenia, or one of its districts.--E.

[4] Perhaps a corruption for Daghistan.--E.

[5] Perhaps Kahira, or Cairo.--E.

[6] Schildtberger, or his transcriber, calls this the town of Bursa, by
mistake for the mountain of Al-Burs.--Forst.

[7] Probably Agrachan; as both Astracan and Saray had been demolished by
Timur. As to his saying that it stood in the middle of the Edil,
Etilia, or Wolga, that may be a mistake; but at any rate, Edil
signifies any river whatever.--Forst.

[8] Bissibur or Issibur, is the ancient Russian town of Isborsk.--Forst. It
would appear that the present expedition was into Siber, or Siberia
--E.

[9] This appears to refer to the Uralian chain, and the frozen regions of
the north of Russia.--E.

[10] A mistake, by confounding close-made dresses of fur with the notion of
naked men, covered all over with shaggy hair.--E.

[11] Probably Wolgar, Bulgar, or Bulgaria, is here meant.--E

[12] From the sequel he appears rather to have been his brother.--E.

[13] This is probably a corruption for Mangrill, or Mingrelia.--E.

[14] Forster explains this by substituting the names of Bebian and Bedias
as synonymous. No such name occurs in our best maps; but there is a
place near the country of Mingrelia in Guria on the Black-Sea, named
Batum, which may be here indicated--E.

[15] This place is called in the text Weisseburgh, signifying the White
Town, otherwise named Akkerman or Akkiermann, Asprecastro,
Tschetatalba, and Belgorod.--Forst.

From the concluding sentence, Schildtberger, who began his travels,
or rather captivity in 1394, must have returned to Munich about 1426
or 1427--E.