Ibn Battuta part 48
In the midst of the hall three men were standing to whom those four men delivered me. These took hold of my garments as...
Ibn Battuta part 47
Our entry into Constantinople the Great was made about noon or a little later, and they rang their bells until the very skies shook...
Ibn Battuta part 46
His horsemen were divided into squadrons, two hundred horsemen in each squadron. Over them was a commander, who had in front of him ten...
Ibn Battuta part 45
From Mahtuli to Constantinople is a journey of twenty-two days, sixteen to the canal , and six thence to Constantinople. From this fortress...
Ibn Battuta part 44
She ordered food to be served and we ate in her presence, and when we desired to leave she said “Do not sever relations...
Ibn Battuta part 43
The day after my arrival I visited him in the afternoon at a ceremonial audience; a great banquet was prepared and we broke...
Ibn Battuta part 42
Ibn Battuta travels to meet Uzbeg Khan
We then prepared for the journey to the sultan’s camp, which was four days’ march a place...
Ibn Battuta part 41
Nevertheless the merchants make a handsome profit, for the least that a horse fetches is a hundred dinars (that is twenty-five dinars in...
Ibn Battuta part 40
We set out with the amir Tuluktumur and his brother and two sons. At every halt the Turks loose their horses, oxen and...
Ibn Battuta part 39
Ibn Battuta arrives at Kaffa
The day after our arrival one of the merchants in our company hired some waggons from the Qipchaqs who inhabit...
