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“…They have 150 Muslim and 150 non-Muslim soldiers in the castle. Its arc-shaped fortress rises at the end of the Adalie Gulf and set on a rock as high as a minaret. The perimeter of the city is 4400 steps. On the west, from the corner of the Pasha’s Palace to the Narin Tower and passing the outskirts gate, the Mehterhane Tower, as far as the Lala Tower in the east, are two double walls. Here are forty towers and 1300 steps. From here toward south are 1000 steps and eighteen towers. From here to the Maiden’s Tower are 1000 steps and fifteen towers. On the land side are double walls and a deep ditch. From here around the harbor are 1100 steps. The walls are forty ells. On the harbor side are twelve towers. In total are 80 towers with twenty body-sizes in between. There are four city gates. One of them opens to the outskirts. As this is a very strong fortress, a few times the Ottoman pashas locked themselves here and rose against the Ottoman State. All the non-Muslims say “Oh Adalie!” Only this gate opening to the outskirts opens to the land side. The other three gates open to the harbor side. Forty steps lead down from the big harbor gate to the harbor. Apart from these four city gates are twenty-two other lesser gates opening in between the city quarters. This fortress is seven-story tall. There are no ditches. The Pasha’s palace is a separate division. In total the fortress has seven divisions. In the fortress are four neighborhoods and one-thousand houses located very close to each other. Its streets are paved with cobblestones. Each house has a bower rising on four posts and they sleep there overnight. There are big springs by the seaside in Adalie. Some of them are in the sea. Where the waters of Adalie run there forms ice; that is, it freezes like plaster. Its air is heavy; therefore, every summer they move to Istinaz pastures. The harbor can hold 200 ships and is safe from eight winds… But there are always storm and showers with each wind in the harbor. Thus, the ships tie their moorings to the high rocks on the shore… Its citruses, kebbat, dates, olives, figs, sugar canes and pomegranates are world-famous. The most famous orchard is that of Tekeli Pasha.
The people of this city speak beautiful Turkish like the people of Anatolia. Its youth dress with Algerian garments. Its women wear an overall cloak of broadcloth and white cloth over their cap. Its people are well-behaved and friendly with the needy.”
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