تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.67
English (machine translation) 13.67
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The pepper plants resemble grapevines. They plant them beside coconut palms and they climb up them as vines climb, except that they have no tendril — that is, the thread — such as vines have. The leaves of the plant resemble
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horses' ears, and some resemble bramble leaves. It bears small clusters whose berries are like those of the abū qunayna when they are green. When autumn comes they gather it and spread it on mats in the sun, as is done with grapes when making raisins, and they keep turning it until it is thoroughly dry and black, and then they sell it to the merchants. The common people in our country claim that they roast it over fire and that this is what causes its wrinkling, but that is not so; it is caused by the sun. I saw it in the city of Qāliqūṭ being poured out for measuring like millet in our country.
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The first city of the land of al-Mulaybār that we entered was the city of Abū Sarūr (with a after the s). It is small, on a large inlet, with many coconut palms. The chief of the Muslims there is Shaykh Jumʿa, known as Abū Sitta, one of the generous, who spent his wealth on the poor and needy until it was gone.
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Two days from there we reached the city of Fākanūr (its name is pronounced with a after the f, the k and the n, ending in r), a large city on an inlet. It has abundant, excellent sugar cane, unequalled in that country, and a community of Muslims whose chief is called Ḥusayn al-Salāṭ. It has a qāḍī and a preacher, and this Ḥusayn built a mosque there for holding the Friday prayer.
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- تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار — Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Arabic