Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq, perhaps the most un-prejudiced and curious traveller of his era, once wrote a sentence that contains some truth:[1]
Our rags appear to them no less strange than theirs appear to us.
— Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq, Letters from Turkey, 1595
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edit- ^ Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq (1595). "Legationis Turcicae Epistolae quatuor. Epistola prima". p. 77.
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