تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.102.12

13.102.12

We stayed three days. Then there arrived from the sultan an amīr known as Qamar al-Dīn with a company of horsemen and foot soldiers; they brought the palanquin (dawla) and ten horses. I mounted, as did my companions, the ship's owner and one of the two slave-girls, and the other was carried in the palanquin. We reached the fort of Harkātū—its name is spelled with a after h, r without vowel, a after k, then alif, t (the dotted-above letter) with u, and w.