تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.62.1

13.62.1

We embarked on a ship belonging to the said Ibrāhīm called al-Jākar — with a after j and the hard k — and put in it seventy of the gift horses; the rest, together with our companions' horses, we put in a ship belonging to the said Ibrāhīm's brother called Manūrat — with a after m, n, long ū, r without vowel and dotted t. Jālansī gave us a ship in which we put the horses of Ẓahīr al-Dīn and Sunbul and their companions, supplied us with water, provisions and fodder, and sent his son in a ship called al-ʿUkayrī — with u after the undotted ʿ, a after k, y without vowel, and r — which resembles a ghurāb but is broader, with sixty oars; it is roofed over during battle so that neither arrows nor stones can reach the rowers. I myself sailed in al-Jākar, which carried fifty archers and fifty Abyssinian fighting men; these are the masters of this sea, and if one of them is aboard a ship, the Indian pirates and infidels keep clear of it.