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Fountain at the remains of church near the sea walls of Topkapi palace in Istanbul. According to the author, the Greek Orthodox of Istanbul would come to the fountain on the feast of the Transfiguration. Several of them would bury themselves in the sand and then drink from the holy fountain, thus realizing a symbolic transfiguration.
Leisure scene at the streets of Istanbul during the Bayram feast.
Muslim funeral in Istanbul.
Festivities at the port of Istanbul, to celebrate the construction of a new ship.
Scene from the Janissaries' revolt against Grand Vizier Ibsir Pasha in 1655. The Sultan receives the Janissaries' claims; at the same the dead body of the Chief Eunuch of the Harem is surrendered to the insurgents through the palace window.
Procession accompanying the Sultan from Topkapi Palace to the mosque.
Scene from the siege of Rhodes, 1522.
The author's travelling companions study a mummy at a pyramid of Memphis in Egypt.
The Nilometer, square cistern with a marble column, used to measure the levels o the Nile in Egypt.
The author travelling in Egypt on a camel. In the foreground, Arab companions of the author give alimony to a man in need.
Reception of a caravan comprised of officials on a pilgrimage at a convent in Jerusalem.
The interior of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem: a priest distributes the Holy Fire.
Privateers attacking a ship.
The Bey (Ottoman official) of Upper Egypt , enters in Cairo.
Ways in which captives are tortured in Egypt.
The author's ship is attacked by three privateer ship outside Tunis.
View of the catacombs of Alexandria.
Preparation of wine at Rosetta, Egypt.
The fountain at the courtyard of Sinan Pasha mosque in Damascus.
Water cisterns in Kteifa, town at the outskirts of Damascus. According to the author the cisterns provided water to the inn of the city and were also used as water troughs for domestic animals.
Preparation of wine at Aleppo, Syria.
Soldiers and guilds parade during the festivities which customarily took place when an Ottoman prince was born. The author had occasion to watch such a parade during his stay in Aleppo.
The lunar eclipse which the author watched during his stay at Mosul. In the foreground a mullah explains to a Western European, possibly the author himself, the high importance of this phaenomenon to Muslims.
A raft crosses Tigres river at Mosul, Irak.
Game of Persian cricket at a public square in Isfahan, as watched by the author.
Preparation of lime for construction purposes, Persia.
A prisoner is executed by torture on the orders of Shah Abbas in Persia. On the right, a Portuguese merchant turns his head away from the horrendous sight.
Prisoners executed by torture in Persia. On the left, a woman is killed after the executioner has placed a rabid cat under her clothes. At the centre, prisoner tortured with hot irons.
Ruy Freire de Andrade, 17th-century Portuguese naval commander and colonist, throws into a boiling cauldron the new-born baby of a family native to the Persian gulf islands.
The mausoleum of Muslim saint Shah Alam in Ahmedabad, India.