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IBN BATUTAH IX SOUTHERX INDIA. 
sultan, and at Kanniij a message was received from Hm 
nominating Wajih Almulk ('^^^ Kazi of Danlatabad, 
to fill the place of Ibn Batutah if he was not again heard of. 
Very slowly the embassy wended its way to the coast, 
and many are the anecdotes and reminiscences of the joiu'ney 
recorded in Ibn Batatah's manuscript. Malwa and Grwalior 
were visited, and Saugor, where Khutlu Khan (o^ exer- 
cised sovereign power. 
At length Cambay was reached. It is spoken of as a 
very beautiful town, where wealthy foreign merchants vied 
with each other in building handsome mosques and resi- 
dences, and of which Makbil Altilingi ((.^^^^ J^s^) was 
governor. The Gulf of Cambay is compared to a river 
with its high ebb and flow, leaving vessels, which at high 
tide were floating at anchor, stranded as the waves receded. 
Of (roa next visited, and at that time part of the terri- 
tory of Rajah J41ansi ((.s-^^W), very Httle mention is made : 
the shadow of its future greatness not having then fallen 
upon it. 
The embassy took ship for Calicut at a port called Kan- 
dahar o^>^). This may be a clerical error in the original 
MS., or the name of the town may have changed past 
recognition in succeeding times, for no such port is discover- 
able on modern maps. 
The vessels appear to have been of large size and were 
three in number. One of them was fitted up by Sultan 
Jalansi for the retinue and horses of Zahir-ad-din (ei-^^^) 
and Sunbul, two of the chief amirs of the pai-ty. 
The gifts intended for the emperor were sliipped on one 
vessel, whilst Ibn Batutah himself eiubai'ked on another in 
which accommodation was foimd for 70 horses, 50 archers, 
and 50 Abyssinian warriors. These latter he calls the rulers 
of those seas, adding that the presence of even one of them 
on board a vessel was sufficient to guarantee immunity from 
