تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.88.4

13.88.4

The next day I went with the nākhudha and the qāḍī ʿĪsā al-Yamanī to visit a hospice at the edge of the island built by the pious shaykh Najīb, and we returned at night. On the morning after that night the vizier sent me clothing and a hospitality gift of rice, ghee, preserved meat, coconuts and the honey made from them, which they call al-qurbānī, with u over the q, r without vowel, a over the one-dotted b, alif, n and y, meaning 'sugar water'; and they brought a hundred thousand cowries for expenses.