Ibn Battuta Passage

Ibn Battuta comes across as a pretty neutral writer in the first paragraph , he does not praise or condescend Constantinople. He describes Constantinople in a physical aspect. He focuses much more on the location and what it is near rather than describing the people. He discusses the river and how Constantinople is located close to the sea. In the second paragraph, Ibn comes across as condescending the people calling their church filthy and dirty, if course this is all from his viewpoint. I believe I could trust this viewpoint because it comes across as very neutral with both the pros and cons of Constantinople.