South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c15.s7.3

c15.s7.3

In the meanwhile I departed. We were forty-three days on sea after which we reached Bengal, a large country producing an abundance of rice. I have not seen any place in the world where goods are cheaper than here; but it is a foggy country and people coming there from Khorasan call it ‘douzakhas pouri ni met’ which means, in Arabic, ‘a hell full of good things.’