Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. IIEvliya Çelebi
History
Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II
Evliya Çelebi
Caucasus, South -- Description and travel; Istanbul (Turkey) -- Description and travel; Turkey -- History
There is but one steep path from the castle, at the bottom of which
near the market is the tomb of this saint in a narrow place. On leaving
it we marched five hours to the North to the village of Kúrbághlí, in
the territory of Kánghrí and the district of Kala’ajik, of two hundred
houses with mosques and gardens, where Sheikh Abd-allah, the son of
Sheikh Shámí, is buried; his tomb is covered with a simple roof, and
is without a convent. Five hours further to the North we came to the
village of Nenegler, in the territory of Kala’ajik, a Turkish village
of an hundred houses; a cubit of snow fell during the night, so that
nobody could leave their lodgings. In the morning when departure was
sounded the horses were loaded with the greatest pain; Turks served as
guides, and thus we marched three hours to the straight of Alák-púlí,
where we were assailed by such a storm and rain, that the confusion
and horror was general, and many lost their lives. The Aghás of the
Páshá, and even his treasurers left the treasure and fled away. Mustafa
Beg the son of the Páshá with his governor (Lálá), master (Khoja) and
servants were missing; the strings of mules and camels were broken and
they were straying on the mountains. I halted a little in a sheltered
valley and then with six of my boys and three packhorses looked for a
house, where I found three others of my slaves and ten Cháshnegírs; so
that we were now twenty-five persons. Thus we passed the straight of
Sárí Alák and arrived happily at the plain on the other side without
knowing where we were going to.
(_Here six pages of the original are omitted, which give a detailed
account of Evliya’s falling into a nest of robbers, headed by
Hyder-zádeh, Kátirjí-zádeh and other robbers, who held their meeting
at Háji-bábá’s, an old rogue. The robbers, on being informed by Evliya
of the Páshá’s being near, made off, and Evliya was kept by Háji-bábá
until rescued by his people and other armed men of the Páshá’s suite,
with whom he shared the rich presents which he forced out of Háji-bábá
upon taking an oath that he would not betray this den of robbers.
Evliya again joined the Páshá at the village of Hossein Aghá._)
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