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at the house of one of the most pious inhabitants. The lawyer 

 *Aly gave me a feast. He was a distinguished person and had 

 sons addicted to study. I saw there a man named Mohammed 

 a native of Zhafdr Alhomoudh, who entertained me and said to 

 me, " If you set foot on the island of Mahal, the Vizier will forcibly 

 detain you, for the people have no Kazi." It was then my 

 intention to get away from that country to Ma'bar ( Coromandel 

 coast), to Serendib (Ceylon), to Bengal, and then to China. I had 

 then arrived at the Maldives in a ship whose captain was ' Omar 

 Alhinaoury, who was one of the virtuous pilgrims. When we 

 had come into harbour at Oannalous, he remained there ten days s 

 then he hired a little barque to take him thence to Mahal, bear- 

 ing a present for the Queen and her Consort. I wished to go with 

 him, but he said, " The barque is not big enough for you and your 

 companions ; if you like to set out without them, it is your affair." 

 I declined this proposal, and ' Omar took his departure. But the 

 wind was contrary [literally s played with him?) and at the end of 

 four days he came back to us, not without having experienced 

 trouble. He made his excuses to me, and implored me to go with 

 him, my companions and all. We set sail in the morning and 

 towards midday disembarked on an island: leaving that, we passed 

 the night at another. After a four days cruise, we arrived at the 

 province of Te'im, the governor of which was one Hil&L He wel- 

 comed me, and gave me a feast: and afterwards came to visit me 

 accompanied by four men, two of whom had on their shoulders a 

 rod* from which were suspended four chickens. The other two had 

 a similar rod to which were attached about ten coconuts. I was 



atoll of the name Cannalous or one resembling it. It is unlikely too that Ibn 

 Batiita coming from the north made his landing at a point so far south as 

 Collomandu. The termination ' lous, 1 moreover or ' M seems in the modern 

 names of the islands to be quite distinct from ' du? \V. s., p. 5, for identification 

 of this island with Kinalos in Malosmadulu Atol. M. los = ? the bois mapou 

 tree of the Chagos group : M. du = S. duva i islet.' — B.J 



* M. dadim4m~**ihe hatliya of the Sinhalese— 



