Evliyâ Çelebi
Born
in Kostantiniyye, Ottoman Empire
March 25, 1611
Died
January 01, 1682
Genre
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“A delightful spot with a spring of water so cold that a man cannot take out of it three stones in succession.”
― Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century
― Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century
“the head ice-man, (Kárjí-báshí) sends two or three hundred persons to cut the ice, which, transparent as crystal and brilliant as diamonds, is used in summer to cool their sherbet by the inhabitants of Constantinople and Brússa. Some hundred ass-loads are every day embarked”
― Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century
― Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century
“The ice-worm I brought to Sultán Ibrahím was smaller than a cucumber. It is an aphrodisiac, sharpens the sight, and makes a man as healthy and vigorous as a new-born child. It is rarely found, and falls but to the lot of kings! It is said that on the Caucasus they are of the size of dogs, with four feet, living and walking among the ice and snow. Faith”
― Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century
― Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century

































