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Abdurazzak (1470) (Envoy of Shah Rukh to India)
Matla'us Sa'dain wa Majmu'ul Bahrain:
The coming of the two favorable stars, and the reunion of the two seas.
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Taken from: R.H.Major : India in the Fifteenth Century
Also called Abd-al Razzac (or El-Samarkandy)
Visited India 1440-1443
Ormuz, which is also called Djerrun, is a port situated in the middle of the sea, and it is the only port of its kind in the world. Merchants from all the seven climes (iqlim) Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, Azerbaijan, Arabian and Persian Iraq, Fars, Khurasan, Ma-wara-amahar, Turkistan, the kingdom of Deschti-Kapt-chack, the countries inhabited by the Kalmucks, China's provinces and Peking, visit this port. Inhabitants from the Ocean coast come here from China, Java, Bengal, Ceylon, Tenasserim, Socotra, Schahrinou, the Maldive Islands, the Malabar Coast, from Abyssinia, Zanzibar, the ports of Bidjanagar, Kalbergah, parts of Gujarat and Cambay the coast of Arabia, .....
Kalikut is a very save haven, which like that of Ormuz brings together merchants from every city and from every country; where one finds in abundance the precious objects brought from maritime countries, especially from Habshah (Ethiopia) Zirbad, (the countries below the wind) and Zanzibar.