1882.] IBNBATUTA IN THE MALDIVES AND CEYLON. 



Was come, I went to bid adieu to the Vizier. He embraced me 

 and wept in such wise that his tears fell upon my feet. He 

 passed the following night watching in the island, for fear lest 

 my connections by marriage and my comrades should rise in 

 rebellion against him. 



At length I got away and arrived at the island of the 

 Vizier 'Aly. My wife was in great distress* and wished to re- 

 turn. I repudiated her and left her there, and wrote this news to 

 the Vizier, for she was the mother of his son's wife. I repu- 

 diated also the wife to whom I had fixed the term {for my return) 

 and sent for a slave girl I w r as fond of. Meanwhile we sailed 

 through the midst of the islands, from one group to another. 



Op Women who have only one Breast. 



In one of the islands I saw a woman who had only one breast. 

 She was mother of two daughters, of whom one resembled her 

 exactly, and the other had two breasts, only that one was large 

 and full of milk, the other small and contained none. I was 

 astonished at the conformation of these women. 



We arrived in course at another of these islands which was 

 small, and had a solitary house, occupied by a weaver,* a married 

 man and father of a family. He possessed small coco trees, and 

 a little barque,f which served him for fishing and visiting the 

 other islands when he wished : on his islet were also small 

 bananas trees. We saw there none of the birds of the continent, 

 except two crows, which flew in front of us on our arrival and 

 circled round our ship. I truly envied the lot of this man, and 

 made a vow that if his island should belong to me, I would retire 

 to it until the inevitable term should arrive for me. 



* Mats, and some cloths, are woven in Huvadu(Suvadiva) Atol ; the former 

 on the islands Gaddu, Havara Tinadu, and Gemand-furhi. — B. 



f M. mas odi — B. 



