تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.107.6

13.107.6

a raṭl of it, put it in water and drank it. It purged me for three days, and God cured me of my illness. I came to dislike that city and asked permission to travel. The sultan said to me: "How can you travel when only one month remains of the sailing season for the islands? Stay until we give you everything that Khund ʿĀlam ordered for you." I refused, and he wrote for me to Fattan so that I could sail in whichever ship I wished. I returned to Fattan and found eight ships sailing to Yemen, and I sailed in one of them. We encountered four warships, which fought us for a little while and then withdrew. We reached Kawlam, and as I still had some remnant of illness I stayed there three months. Then I boarded a ship bound for Sultan Jamāl al-Dīn al-Hinawrī, and the infidels came out against us between Hinawr and Fākanūr.