تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 7.1.2

7.1.2

He sent the amir Muhammad of Herat with a thousand horsemen to escort us to the port of embarkation, and we were accompanied by the Chinese ambassadors, fifteen in number, along with their servants, about a hundred men in all. We set out therefore in imposing force and formed a large camp. The sultan gave instructions that we were to be supplied with provisions while we were travelling through his dominions. Our journey began on the 17th of Safar 743 [22nd July 1342]. That was the day selected because they choose either the 2nd, 7th, 12th, 17th, 22nd, or 27th of the month as the day for setting out. On the first day’s journey we halted at the post-station of Tilbat, seven miles from Delhi, and travelled thence through Bayana, a large and well-built town with a magnificent mosque, to Kūl [Koel, Aligarh], where we encamped in a wide plain outside the town.