IBN BATTUTA TRAVELS

Greetings from the Mongol Steppes!

I TRAVELED TO THE PORT OF KAFFA

• There, I witnessed a religion fight and the birth of my second child
• I then traveled two months and 15 days to the Volga River to meet
• Kipchak Khan Ozbeg, the king of the steppes. It was very cold and
• damp. We ate richly, with new foods like dugi with curdled milk,
• rishta, and a drink called buza. We travelled to Constantinople with his

IN CONSTANTINOPLE

• Kipchak Khan Ozbeg let his wife have no veil and eat pork! It was
• very odd, since Ozbeg is Muslim like I. After a long trial, we went
• back to his home and I continued my travels on the Silk Road with
• a large sum of items, including 400 wagons, 2000 horses, and
• 500 oxen. I will write again. Sincerely, Ibn Battuta