Mir’atü’l-Memalik

The Travels and Adventures of the Turkish Admiral Sidi Ali Reïs in India, Afghanistan, Central Asia, and Persia, during the Years 1553–1556

Translated from the Turkish, with Notes, by A. Vambéry

London, 1899

Editor’s introduction by Fran Pritchett

I. [[Preface]]

II. The beginning of the story

III. About what happened in Basrah

IV. What took place in the Sea of Ormuz

V. What we suffered in the Indian Ocean

VI. What happened in the Province of Gujarat

VII. What befell us in the Province of Sind

VIII. My experiences in Hindustan

IX. Our experience in Bakhtar-Zemin, i.e. in Kabulistan

X. The condition of Badakshan and Khatlan

XI. Events in Turan, i.e. Transoxania

XII. Our experiences in Kharezm and Deshti-Kipchak

XIII. Our fate in Khorasan

XIV. Our vicissitudes in Irak-Adjem

XV. The rest of our Adventures