تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.114.10

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from the ships to come ashore among them, unless he is one of those residing with them. They buy and sell with people only on the shore, and they bring water to them on elephants, since it is far from the shore, and do not let them draw it themselves, fearing for their women, because these are attracted to handsome men! Elephants are plentiful among them, and no one but their sultan sells them; they are bought from him in exchange for cloth. They have a strange language which no one understands except those who have lived among them and visited them often. When we reached their shore they came out to us in small boats, each boat made of a single hollowed-out log, and brought bananas, betel, areca nuts and fish.