تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.74.4

13.74.4

and in it are rooms, cabins and chambers for the merchants. A cabin has rooms and a latrine, and a key with which its occupant locks it; he takes slave girls and women with him. Sometimes a man is in his cabin and no one else on the ship knows of him until they meet when they arrive at some country. The sailors have their children live in them, and they grow greens, vegetables and ginger in wooden tubs.