ABSTRACT
None of the Mohammedans can enter their country until one of them has become his host, with whom he stays and for whom he brings garments from the lands of Islam and for his wife a kerchief and some pepper, millet, raisins and nuts. Of all the Arab writers who visited the far northern lands, and left to posterity an account of their adventures, unquestionably the first place accrues to Ibn-Fadlan, whose complete work languished in obscurity for 1000 years, when a nearly complete MS. IFR explains it as material woven on a special loom worked by the feet. The word also occurs on p. 19, and evidently refers to material of good quality.
