تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 6.5.7
Travels in Asia and Africa 1325–1354 6.5.7
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6.5.7
After that the sultan’s hospitality-gift was fixed. This was composed of a thousand pounds of Indian flour, a thousand pounds of flesh-meat, and I cannot say how many pounds of sugar, ghee, and areca-nuts, with a thousand betel leaves. The Indian pound equals twenty of our Moroccan pounds and twenty-five Egyptian pounds. Later on the sultan commanded some villages to be assigned to me to the yearly revenue of five thousand dinars.