Ibn Batuta, an Arab of Tangier, after performing the Mecca pilgrimage through N.Africa, visits Syria, Quiloa (E.Africa), Ormuz, S.Russia, Bulgaria, Khiva, Candahar, and attached himself to the Court of Delhi, 1334-42, whence he was despatched on an embassy to China.

After his return he visited Timbuctoo.
1316-30.

Odorico di Pordenone, a Minorite friar, travelled through India, by way of Persia, Bombay, and Surat, to Malabar, the Coromandel coast, and thence to China and Tibet.
1320.

Flavio Gioja of Amalfi invents the compass box and card.
1312-31.

Abulfeda composes his geography.
1327-72.