60 IBN BATUTA IN THE MALDIVES AND CEYLON. [EXTRA NO*. 



cloths and bostous of cowries, and conducted himself towards 

 me in the most perfect way. I took my departure and after a 

 voyage of forty-three days we arrived at Bengal. 



[The son of Ibn Batuta here spoken of was probably born 

 before the close of 1344. The traveller therefore took his final 

 departure from the Maldives about the close of the year 1346.] 



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