ABSTRACT
From Marrákush I travelled with the suite of our master [the Sultan] to Fez, where I took leave of our master and set out for the Negrolands. I reached the town of Sijilmása, a very fine town, with quantities of excellent dates. 1 The city of Basra rivals it in abundance of dates, but the Sijilmása dates are better, and the kind called Írár has no equal in the world. I stayed there with the learned Abú Muhammad al-Bushrí, the man whose brother I met in the city of Qanjanftí in China. How strangely separated they are ! He showed me the utmost honour.
