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Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354
Here begins Ibn Battuta’s travels
I left Tangier, my birthplace, on Thursday, 2nd Rajab 725 [June 14, 1325], being at that time twenty-two years of age [22 lunar years; 21 and 4 months by solar reckoning], with the intention of making the Pilgrimage to the Holy House [at Mecca] and the Tomb of the Prophet [at Medina].

I set out alone, finding no companion to cheer the way with friendly intercourse, and no party of travellers with whom to associate myself. Swayed by an overmastering impulse within me, and a long-cherished desire to visit those glorious sanctuaries, I resolved to quit all my friends and tear myself away from my home. As my parents were still alive, it weighed grievously upon me to part from them, and both they and I were afflicted with sorrow.

Ibn Battuta – On reaching the city of Tilimsan [Tlemsen], whose sultan at that time was Abu Tashifin, I found there two ambassadors of the Sultan of Tunis, who left the city on the same day that I arrived. One of the brethren having advised me to accompany them, I consulted the will of God in this matter, and after a stay of three days in the city to procure all that I needed, I rode after them with all speed. I overtook them at the town of Miliana, where we stayed ten days, as both ambassadors fell sick on account of the summer heats. When we set out again, one of them grew worse, and died after we had stopped for three nights by a stream four miles from Miliana. I left their party there and pursued my journey, with a company of merchants from Tunis.
Ibn Battuta travels overland from Algiers to Tunis.
On reaching al-Jaza’ir [Algiers] we halted outside the town for a few days, until the former party rejoined us, when we went on together through the Mitija [the fertile plain behind Algiers] to the mountain of Oaks [Jurjura] and so reached Bijaya [Bougiel.

Ibn Battuta part 45

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From Mahtuli to Constantinople is a journey of twenty-two days, sixteen to the canal , and six thence to Constantinople. From this fortress one travels on horses and mules only, and the waggons...

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She ordered food to be served and we ate in her presence, and when we desired to leave she said “Do not sever relations with us, but come often to us and inform us...

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The day after my arrival I visited him in the afternoon at a ceremonial audience; a great banquet was prepared and we broke our fast in his presence. These Turks do not follow...

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Ibn Battuta travels to meet Uzbeg KhanWe then prepared for the journey to the sultan’s camp, which was four days’ march a place called Bishdagh, which means “Five mountains.” In these mountains there...

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Nevertheless the merchants make a handsome profit, for the least that a horse fetches is a hundred dinars (that is twenty-five dinars in Moroccan money) and it often sells for twice or three...

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We set out with the amir Tuluktumur and his brother and two sons. At every halt the Turks loose their horses, oxen and camels, and drive them out to pasture at liberty, night...

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Ibn Battuta arrives at KaffaThe day after our arrival one of the merchants in our company hired some waggons from the Qipchaqs who inhabit this desert, and who are Christians, and we came to...

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After leaving this town we crossed a great river called Saqari by a ferry. This consisted of four beams bound together with ropes, on which the passengers are placed, together with their...

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Ibn Battuta buys a slave girlWe went on through the town of Tim, which is in the territories of this sultan, to Aya Suluq , a large and ancient town venerated by the Greeks....

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This went on for several days, the sultan inviting us daily to join him at his meal, and one afternoon visiting us himself, on account of the respect which the Turks show for theologians....

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