تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.88.5

13.88.5

After ten days a ship arrived from Saylān carrying faqīrs, Arabs and Persians, who knew me, and they informed the vizier's servants about me. He became all the more pleased with me, and sent for me at the new moon of Ramaḍān. I found the amīrs and viziers there, and food was brought on tables, a group gathering at each table. The vizier seated me beside him, and with him were the qāḍī ʿĪsā, the vizier al-Fāmaldārī and the vizier ʿUmar Dahrad, which means commander of the army. Their food was rice, chicken, ghee, fish, preserved meat and cooked bananas, and afterwards they drink coconut honey mixed with spices, which aids digestion.