ABSTRACT
Traveling in the world and reflecting on God's creations is a great reminder to the heart, and what a reminder and it is a great illumination to the eyes, and what an illumination, for all that God has created is a miracle, visible to all. But only by going into foreign lands will the heart be made pious and be directed to God away from everything else. On the eve of Monday 2 Rajab [May 19, 1785] Al-Miknasi, boarded a ship sent by the great one of Spain, by order of our lord, victorious by God, that took us to a larger ship in the city of Cartagena. He sailed from Tangier in the aforementioned ship and reached Cartagena after three days, where they dropped anchor in its extraordinarily shaped harbor. They remained there for five days and then transferred onto the big ship that was a navy vessel with about fifty cannons and 500 sailors and soldiers.
