The East African coast : select documents from the first to the earlier nineteenth century / G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville.

1. The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea : a first century traveller's handbook - 2. Claudius Ptolemy's Geography : the knowledge of fourth- century Byzantium - 3. Cosmas Indicopleustes : a trading voyage to Ceylon in A.D. 525 - 4. Tuan Ch'eng-shih : Chinese knowledge in the ninth century - 5. Buzurg ibn Shahriyar of Ramhormuz : a tenth-century slaving adventure - 6. al-Mas'udi : the ivory trade - 7. Ibn Hawqal : Whites in Zanzibar - 8. al-Idrisi : the first western notice of East Africa - 9. Chao Ju-Kua : Zanzibar and Somalia in the thirteenth century - 10. Abu al-Fida : Malindi, Mombasa, and Sofala - 11. Marco Polo : the People and Trade of Zanzibar - 12. Ibn Battuta : a visit to Zeila, Mogadishu, Mombasa, and Kilwa Kisiwani in 1331 - 13. Abu al-Mahasin : on Mombasa, Mogadishu, and Lamu in 1441 - 14. Anonymous : an Arabic History of Kilwa Kisiwani c. 1520 - 15. Vasco da Gama's Discovery of East Africa for Portugal 1498 - 16. Vasco da Gama's return from India 1499 - 17. The Anonymous Narrative of the Voyage of Pedro Alvares Cabral 1500 - 18. King Manuel of Portugal to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, 29 July 1501 - 19. Vasco da Gama's second voyage 1502 - 20. Ruy Lourenço Ravasco in Zanzibar 1503–4 - 21. The expedition of Dom Francisco d’Almeida 1505 - 22. The sack of Kilwa and Mombasa : an eye-witness account of 1505 - 23. Nuno Vaz Pereira's settlement of Kilwa affairs 1506 - 24. Diogo da Alcaçova to the King of Portugal, 20 November I506 - 25. Tomé Pires : Trade Relations of the East Coast with Europe, Arabia, and the Far East - 26. Duarte Barbosa : an account of the East Coast c. 1517-18 - 27. St. Francis Xavier : a visit to Malindi and Socotra in 1542 - 28. Father Monclaro : a journey from Kilwa to Pate in 1569 - 29. van Linschoten : the first Dutch information on East Africa - 30. Father Joao dos Santos : the Zimba cannibals 1592-3 - 31. Sir James Lancaster : the first English visit 1591–2 - 32. Gaspar de S. Bernadino : a journey along the coast in 1606 - 33. A. Bocarro : Gaspar Bocarro's journey from Tete to Kilwa in 1616 - 34. Anonymous : the Rebellion of Mombasa 1631 - 35. Rezende's Description of Mombasa 1634 - 36. William Alley : an English visitor to Mombasa in 1667 - 37. Monsieur Morice : a Slaving Treaty with the Sultan of Kilwa 1776 - 38. J. Crassons de Medeuil : the French Slave Trade in Kilwa c. 1784-5 - 39. Captain P. Dallons : Zanzibar in 1804 - 40. J. Prior : Voyage in the Nisus Frigate - 41. Anonymous : a History of Mombasa c. 1824 - 42. The Ancient History of Kilwa Kisiwani - 43. The Ancient History of Lindi - 44. The History of Sudi - 45. The Ancient History of Dar es-Salaam - 46. The History of Former Times in Bagamoyo - 47. The History of Pate - 48. The History of Kua, Juani Island, Mafia -- MAPS : 1. The Indian Ocean-showing the principal places mentioned in the text - 2a. Historical Sites of the Kenya Coast-northern sector - b. Historical Sites of the Kenya Coast-southern sector - 3. Historical Sites of the Tanganyika Coast - 4a. Pate, Manda and Lamu Islands - b. Kilwa Kisiwani and its environs.