...visited Mecca in 1503, tells us that it was " most beautiful and very well inhabited " and contained then about 6,000 families. " The houses are extremely good,...houses worth three or four thousand ducats each." He found there in May, 1503, " a marvellous number of strangers and peregrynes, or pilgrims : of the...

...strife that was tormenting Mecca and its Sharifs of that era. We will now speak of the noble city or Mecca, what it is, its state and who governs it. The...are houses worth three or four thousand ducats each. The city is not surrounded by walls. A quarter ot a mile distant from the city we found a mountain...

...war, one brother with another, for there are four brothers, and they fought to be Lords of Mecca. <I We will now speak of the very noble city of Mecca,...ducats each. This city is not surrounded by walls. A quarter of a mile distant from the city we found a mountain where there was a road cut by human labour....

...Travels. from The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema HOW MECCA IS CONSTRUCTED, AND WHY THE MOORS GO THERE We will now speak of the very noble city of Mecca,...beautiful, and is very well inhabited, and contains about six thousand families. The houses are extremely good, like our own, and there are houses worth three...