Ludovico di Varthema, who visited in 1503, and ending with
Vincent Le Blanc (1568), Johann Wild (1607), Joseph Pitts (1680), Domingo Badia y Leblich (also called Ali Bey, 1807), Ulrich Jasper Seetzen (1809?10), Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1814?15), Giovanni Finati (1814), L�on Roches (1841?42), Georg August Wallin (1845), Sir Richard Burton (1853), Heinrich, Freiherr von Maltzan (1860), Herman Bicknell (1862), John Fryer Keane (1877?78), and Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1885). Jules Gervais-Courtellemont, who visited in 1894.