[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) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt) › 13.114.9 # تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.114.9 English (machine translation) 13.114.9 - **Language:** English ### [13.114.9](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.114.9) Their men are shaped like us, except that their mouths are like the mouths of dogs! Their women, however, are not so, and they are of outstanding beauty. Their men go naked and do not cover themselves, except that each of them puts his penis and testicles in a decorated reed sheath hung from his belly; their women cover themselves with the leaves of trees. Living among them is a group of Muslims from the people of Banjāla and the Jāwa, who dwell in a separate quarter. They told us that these people couple like beasts without concealing it, and that a man among them has thirty wives, more or less, and that they do not commit adultery. If one of them commits adultery, the punishment for the man is to be crucified until he dies, unless his friend or his slave comes and is crucified in his place, and he is set free. The punishment for the woman is that the sultan orders all his servants to have intercourse with her one after another in his presence until she dies, and then they throw her into the sea! For this reason they do not allow anyone - [Previous: 13.114.8](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.114.8) - [Next: 13.114.10](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.114.10) - [Up: 13.114](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.114) ## Linked texts (1) - [تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.114.9) — Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.114.9](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.114.9) · Pramāṇa