تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 7.4.2

7.4.2

One of these is the shipowner Ibrahim, who possesses six vessels of his own. At Qandahar we embarked on a ship belonging to this Ibrahim, called al-Jagir. On this ship we put seventy of the horses of the sultan’s present, and the rest we put with the horses of our companions on a ship belonging to Ibrahim’s brother, called Manurt. Jalansi gave us a vessel on which we put the horses of Zahir ad-Din and Sunbul and their party, and he equipped it for us with water, provisions and forage. He sent his son with us on a ship called al-Uqayri, which resembles a galley, but is rather broader; it has sixty oars and is covered with a roof during battle in order to protect the rowers from arrows and stones. I myself went on board al-Jagir, which had a complement of fifty rowers and fifty Abyssinian men-at-arms. These latter are the guarantors of safety on the Indian Ocean; let there be but one of them on a ship and it will be avoided by the Indian pirates and idolaters. Two days later we called at the island of Bayram, and on the following day reached the town of Qtiqa [Gogo, in Kathiawar], a large town with important bazaars. We anchored four miles from shore on account of the low tide, but I went on shore in a small boat with some of my companions. The sultan of Qtiqa is a heathen called Dunqtil, who used to profess submission to the king of India but was in reality a rebel.