تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.75.5

13.75.5

It is the custom in the land of Mulaybār that whatever is recovered from any ship that is wrecked goes to the treasury, except in this town alone, where its owners take it; for that reason it has prospered and people frequent it greatly. When the people of the kakam saw what had happened to the junk, they raised their sails and went off, taking with them all my goods, my slave boys and my slave girls, and I was left alone on the shore with no one but a young slave I had freed; when he saw what had befallen me, he left me! Nothing remained with me but the ten dinars the yogī had given me and the carpet I used to spread to sleep on. People told me that the kakam would have to put in at the port of Kawlam, so I resolved to travel there. Between the two is a journey of ten days by land, or by the river as well for whoever wishes. So I travelled by the river and hired a Muslim man to carry the carpet for me.