"On the eighth-and-twentieth day of the month Rubi-Estani, in the year of the Hegira, 886, I, Said Achmed-ibn Mustafa, Governor of Scutari and scribe of the Palace, having accomplished the Abdestan and recited the Fateha with hands raised heavenwards, ascended to the tower of Ujuk Kule, from whence I could survey all Stambul, and there I began to meditate.