Ibn Battuta said about Maldive: " I resolved to go to the Dhibat Almahal ( the Maldives) of which I had heard much. Ten days after we had embarked at Calicut we arrived at the Dhibat Almahal islands...
Welcome to the Maldives paradise !
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" I resolved to go to the Dhibat Almahal ( the Maldives) of which I had heard much. Ten days after we had embarked at Calicut we arrived at the Dhibat Almahal islands...
These islands are among the wounders of the world: they numbers about 2000. A hundred or less of these islands lie together in a circle in the form of a ring...
All the inhabitants of these islands are Musalmans, pious and honest people...
The food of the natives consists of a fish like lyroun, which they koulb almas. Its flesh is red... Most of the trees on these islands are coconuts; they furnish the food of the inhabitants along with the fish..."
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