تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.94.4

13.94.4

On the night I set out, I went to take leave of the vizier. He embraced me and wept until his tears dropped on my feet, and he spent that night guarding the island himself, for fear that my in-laws and companions would rise against him! Then I set out and reached the island of the vizier ʿAlī. My wife was struck by severe pains and wished to go back, so I divorced her and left her there, and wrote to the vizier about it, since she was the mother of his son's wife. I divorced the one for whom I had set the term, and sent for a slave girl whom I loved. We travelled through those islands from one district to another!!