تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.66.7

13.66.7

I have not seen a safer road than this one. They kill a thief for a single coconut, and if any fruit falls no one picks it up until its owner takes it! I was told that some Hindus passed along the road and one of them picked up a coconut. News of this reached the governor, who ordered a stake to be planted in the ground, its upper end sharpened and pushed through a wooden board until it projected from it. The man was stretched on the board and impaled on the stake, lying on his belly, until it came out of his back, and he was left as a warning to onlookers! There are many of these stakes of this kind along those roads, so that people may see them and take heed. We used to meet infidels on this road at night, and when they saw us they stepped aside from the road until we had passed. The Muslims are the most honoured of people there, except that, as we have said, they do not eat with them or admit them into their houses.