Sometimes Also It
Flows From The Tree Without Any Notch; This Is By Reason Of The Great Heat
Of The Sun There.[NOTE 2]
NOTE 1.
- Dufar. The name [Arabic] is variously pronounced Dhafar,
DHOFAR, Zhafar, and survives attached to a well-watered and fertile plain
district opening on the sea, nearly 400 miles east of Shehr, though
according to Haines there is now no town of the name. Ibn Batuta speaks
of the city as situated at the extremity of Yemen ("the province of
Aden"), and mentions its horse-trade, its unequalled dirt, stench, and
flies, and consequent diseases. (See II. 196 seqq.) What he says of the
desert character of the tract round the town is not in accordance with
modern descriptions of the plain of Dhafar, nor seemingly with his own
statements of the splendid bananas grown there, as well as other Indian
products, betel, and coco-nut. His account of the Sultan of Zhafar in his
time corroborates Polo's, for he says that prince was the son of a cousin
of the King of Yemen, who had been chief of Zhafar under the suzerainete
of that King and tributary to him. The only ruins mentioned by Haines are
extensive ones near Haffer, towards the western part of the plain; and
this Fresnel considers to be the site of the former city. A lake which
exists here, on the landward side of the ruins, was, he says, formerly a
gulf, and formed the port, "the very good haven," of which our author
speaks.
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