Ibn Battuta part 33
Water is a valuable commodity in this island. They have wells and artificial reservoirs to collect rainwater at some distance from the town. The...
Ibn Battuta part 32
The many uses of the coconut
One of its peculiarities is that oil, milk and honey are extracted from it. The honey is made in...
Ibn Battuta part 31
The people of Dhofar and their customs
Its population consists of merchants who live entirely on trade. When a vessel arrives they take the master,...
Ibn Battuta part 30
Kulwa on the African mainland
We stayed one night in this island , and then pursued our journey to Kulwa, which is a large town...
Ibn Battuta part 29
The town of Mogadishu in Somalia
On leaving Zayla we sailed for fifteen days and came to Maqdasha , which is an enormous town. Its...
Ibn Battuta part 28
After staying some days as his guest I set out for the town of San’a’, which was the former capital, a populous town built...
Ibn Battuta part 27
The people of this town hold the famous subut an-nakhl in this wise. They go out to the palmgroves every Saturday during the...
Ibn Battuta part 26
These terrors continued until we emerged at a roadstead called Ra’s Dawa’ir between Aydhab and Sawakin. We landed here and found on the shore...
Ibn Battuta part 25
After returning to Baghdad, Ibn Battuta makes his second pilgrimage to Mecca
Ibn Battuta returns to Mecca with the Baghdad pilgrim’s caravan
When we arrived at...
Ibn Battuta part 24
Ibn Battutta journeys to Tabriz
I left Baghdad with the mahalla of Sultan Abu Sa’id, on purpose to see the way in which the king’s...
