Note {1} — Chapter XXXIX

Note 1.—Ḳalhát, the Calaiate of the old Portuguese writers, is about 500 m. by shortest sea-line north-east of Dhafár. “The city of Kalhát,” says Ibn Batuta, “stands on the shore; it has fine bazaars, and one of the most beautiful mosques that you could see anywhere, the walls of which are covered with enamelled tiles of Káshán.... The city is inhabited by merchants, who draw their support from Indian import trade.... Although they are Arabs, they don’t speak correctly. After every phrase they have a habit of adding the particle no. Thus they will say ‘You are eating,— no?’ ‘You are walking,—no?’ ‘You are doing this or that,—no?’ Most of them are schismatics, but they cannot openly practise their tenets, for they are under the rule of Sultan Kutbuddin Tehemten Malik, of Hormuz, who is orthodox” (II. 226).