After visiting the port of Sawakin, Ibn Battuta reaches the town of Sarja on the Northwestern coast of Yemen.
Item
- Title
- After visiting the port of Sawakin, Ibn Battuta reaches the town of Sarja on the Northwestern coast of Yemen.
- Description
- “Six days after leaving Sawakin we reached the town of Hali, a large and populous town inhabited by two Arab tribes. The sultan is a man of excellent character, a man of letters and a poet. I had accompanied him from Mecca to Judda, and when I reached his city he treated me generously and made me his guest for several days. I embarked in a ship of his and reached the township of Sarja, which is inhabited by Yemenite merchants. They are generous and open-handed, supply food to travellers and assist pilgrims, transporting them in their ships and providing for them from their own funds. We stayed at Sarja only one night as their guests, then sailed on to the roadstead of al-Ahwab and thence went up to Zabid.”
- Date
- 1330
- Subject
- Travel
- Bibliographic Citation
- Ibn Batuta, Gibb, H. A. R. S., Sanguinetti, B. R., & Defremery, C. (1958). Travels of Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1325-1354. Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press.
- Source
- Gibb 107-108.