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                         NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS

                                  IN

                       EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA,

                                  IN

                       THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY,

                                  BY

                            EVLIYA EFENDI.

                      TRANSLATED FROM THE TURKISH

                                  BY

                     THE RITTER JOSEPH VON HAMMER,
                        F.M.R.A.S., &c. &c. &c.

                               VOL. II.

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CONTENTS.


                                                   Page

  JOURNEY TO BRUSSA.

  Description of the Town and Fortress of Modania                      2

  Description of the Buildings of Brússa                               4

  The Public Officers of Brússa                                      ib.

  Description of the Imperial and other Mosques                        6

  The Mosque of Khodavendkiár, or Sultán
  Murád I.                                                             7

  The Mosque of Sultán Báyazíd I.                                    ib.

  The Mosque of Mohammed I.                                          ib.

  The Mosque of Murád II. the son of Mohammed I.                     ib.

  The Mosque of Emír Sultán                                            8

  The Colleges of Brússa                                             ib.

  The Convents, Imárets, Kháns, Fountains,
  Mills, and Sebíls of Brússa                                        ib.

  Praise of the Baths of Brússa                                       10

  Description of the hot spring of Chekirgeh
  Sultán      ib.

  Description of the sulphurous hot spring
  (Gogurdlí Kaplíjeh)                                                 11

  Description of New Kaplíjeh      ib.

  Description of the Market of Brússa                                 12

  Description of the bridge of Erghándí                               13

  Description of the Walks and pleasure-places
  of Brússa                                                           14

  A Dissertation on Mountains                                         15

  Description of the Ice-worm                                         16

  Language, Dress, and Manufactures of the
  Inhabitants of Brússa                                               17

  The Climate of Brússa                                              ib.

  The Eatables, Beverages and Fruits of Brússa                       ib.

  Visit to the Monuments and Tombs of the
  first Ottoman Sultáns                                               18

  Short account of the Conquests of Osmán
  Khán                                                                19

  Conquests of Sultán Orkhán                                         ib.

  Visit to Sultán Orkhán’s Tomb                                      ib.

  Notice of Hájí Begtásh, the Great Saint                            ib.

  Short account of Sultan Murád I.                                    21

  Tomb of Sultán Murád I. Khodavendkiár                              ib.

  Short account of Ilderím Báyazíd                                   ib.

  Short account of Sultán Mohammed I.                                 22

  Short account of the reign of Murád II.                            ib.

  Tombs of Ottoman Princes                                            23

  Visit to the Tombs of Saints at Brússa                              24


  JOURNEY TO NICOMEDIA.

  Qualities of a Mineral Spring                                       30

  Pilgrimages of Nicomedia                                            33


  JOURNEY TO BATUM AND TREBISONDE.

  Description of the Ancient Town of Sinope                           36

  Description of the Castle of Samsún                                 39

  Description of the Castle of Onia                                   40

  Description of the Town and Ancient Fortress
  of Trebisonde, the Capital of the Lezgians                          41

  Begs of Abaza Tribes                                                43

  The Commanding Officers and Magistrates of
  Trebisonde                                                         ib.

  Praise of the Poets of Trebisonde                                   44

  Form and size of the Town, and description
  of its Monuments                                                   ib.

  Description of the Lower Castle                                    ib.

  Description of the