Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century Quotes

“A delightful spot with a spring of water so cold that a man cannot take out of it three stones in succession.”
― Evliyâ Çelebi, 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”
― Evliyâ Çelebi, 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”
― Evliyâ Çelebi, Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century

“At Seraglo-Point there was a triple-headed brazen dragon, spitting fire, and burning all the enemy’s ships and boats whichever way they came.”
― Evliyâ Çelebi, Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century