[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Islamic world](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl) › [Arabic](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar) › [Travel and sea narratives](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla) › [تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta) › [The Travels of Ibn Batuta](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-lee) › 17.1.5 # تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 17.1.5 The Travels of Ibn Batūta 17.1.5 - **Language:** English ### [17.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-lee.17.1.5) When we perceived their strength we retreated, while they pursued us, and in this we persevered. I observed three of them coming after me, when I was left quite alone. It happened at the same time that the fore-feet of my horse had stuck fast between two stones, so that I was obliged to dismount and set him at liberty. I was now in a way that led into a valley between two hills, and here I lost sight of the infidels. I was so circumstanced, however, that I knew neither the country, nor the roads. I then set my horse at liberty to go where he would. While I was in a valley closely interwoven with trees, behold! a party of cavalry, about forty in number, rushed upon me and took me prisoner, before I was well aware of their being there. I was much afraid they would shoot me with their arrows. I alighted from my horse, therefore, and gave myself up as their prisoner. They then stripped me of all I had, bound me, and took me with them for two days, intending to kill me. Of their language I was quite ignorant: but God delivered me from them; for they left me, and I took my course I knew not whither. I was much afraid they would take it into their heads to kill me; I therefore hid myself in a forest thickly interwoven with trees and thorns, so much so, that a person wishing to hide himself could not be discovered. Whenever I ventured upon the roads, I found they always led, either to one of the villages of the infidels, or to some ruined village. - [Previous: 17.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-lee.17.1.4) - [Next: 17.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-lee.17.1.6) - [Up: 17.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-lee.17.1) ## Linked texts (1) - [تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.47.1-11) — Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-lee.17.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-lee.17.1.5) · Pramāṇa