[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) › 13.47.7 # تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.47.7 English (machine translation) 13.47.7 - **Language:** English ### [13.47.7](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.47.7) "Do you want me to let you go?" I said: "Yes." He said: "Go." So I took the jubba I was wearing and gave it to him, and he gave me a worn-out tarred garment he had, and showed me the way. I went off, fearing that they might change their minds and catch up with me, so I went into a reed thicket and hid in it until the sun set. Then I came out and took the road the young man had shown me, and it led me to water, from which I drank. I walked until a third of the night had passed and reached a mountain, and slept at its foot. In the morning I took the road and by mid-morning reached a high rocky mountain on which grew acacia (umm ghaylān) and lote trees. I kept picking the lote fruit and eating it, until the thorns left marks on my arms that remain there to this day! Then I came down from that mountain to land sown with cotton, with castor-oil trees on it, and there was a bāʾin there. The bāʾin, among them, is a very wide well lined with stones, with steps by which one descends to the water. Some of them have domes, arcades and sitting places of stone in the middle and on the sides. The kings and amīrs of the country vie with one another in building them along roads where there is no water, and we shall mention later some of those we saw. When I reached the bāʾin I drank from it and found there some mustard shoots that had fallen - [Previous: 13.47.6](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.47.6) - [Next: 13.47.8](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.47.8) - [Up: 13.47](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.47) ## Translations (1) - [The Travels of Ibn Batūta](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-lee.17.1.5) — Samuel Lee 1829, English ## Linked texts (1) - [تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta.13.47.7) — Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.47.7](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.rihla.ibn-battuta~en-mt.13.47.7) · Pramāṇa