تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.90.1

13.90.1

The vizier Sulaymān Mānāyak had sent to me proposing that I marry his daughter. I sent to the vizier Jamāl al-Dīn asking his permission for this, and the messenger came back to me and said, 'It did not please him; he would like to marry you to his own daughter when her waiting period is over.' But I refused that, fearing her ill luck, since two husbands had died while married to her before consummation! Meanwhile I was struck by a fever and fell ill with it — everyone who enters that island inevitably gets fever — and my resolve to leave it grew stronger. I sold some of the ornaments for cowries and hired a ship in which to travel to Banjāla.