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drank the beverage, and that relieved me in three days, and God 

 healed me, I took a disgust for the town of Moutrah, and re- 

 quested the Sultan's permission to take a voyage. He said, 

 "Where would you go? There remains only a month ere you 

 start for the Maldives. Remain here and we shall give you all 

 the equipment ordered by the master of the world (the deceased 

 Sultan)" I declined, and he wrote an order in my favor to 

 Fattan, that I should be allowed to depart in any vessel I 

 would. I returned to that town, and there found eight vessels 

 setting sail for Yemen, and in one of them I embarked. 



[lbn Batuta left this ship at Caoulem (Quilon) on the 

 Malabar Coast, and there remained for three months. He then 

 embarked in another, which was attacked by the pirates near 

 Hinaour (Honore), and the traveller lost all his property, includ- 

 ing the pearls and precious stones presented to him by the 

 Ceylon King, and all his clothes : — ] 



I returned to Calicut and entered one of the Mosques. A 

 lawyer sent me a suit of clothes ; the Kazi, a turban ; and a 

 merchant, another coat. I was here informed of the marriage of 

 the Vizier 'Abd Allah with the Queen Khadidjah, after the death 

 of the Vizier Djemdl eddtn, and I heard that my wife, whom I had 

 left enceinte, was delivered of a male child. It came into my 

 heart to go back to the Maldives, but I feared the enmity which 

 existed between me and the Vizier Ahd Allah, In consequence, 

 I opened the Kuran, and these words appeared before me, " The 

 angels shall descend unto them, and shall say, e Fear not, neither 

 be ye grieved.' " ( Kurdn, Sur. xii., 30.) I implored the bene- 

 diction of God, took my departure, and arrived in ten days at the 

 Maldives, and landed at the island of Cannalous. The Governor 

 of this island, 'Abd al "*Aziz Almakdach&ouy, welcomed me with 

 respect, entertained me, and got a barque ready. I arrived in 

 due course at Hololy* an island to which the Queen and her sisters 



* Sololy s—Probaly Optveli island in North Male Atol.-~ B. 



