(1) AFTER ten days’ journey from al-Sara we reached the city of Sarachuq (chuq means ‘little’, so that it is as if they said ‘little Sara’), which lies on the bank of a great and swollen river called Ulusu, meaning ‘the great stream’. Over it is a bridge of boats, like the bridge of Baghdad. At this city we reached the limit of the journey with the horses that draw the waggons. We sold them at the rate of four silver dinars per head, and even less, on account of their exhaustion and the cheapness of horses in this town, and hired camels to draw the waggons. In this city there is a hospice (2) belonging to a pious Turk of great age, who is called Ata, which means ‘father’. He received us hospitably in it and called down a blessing on us. We were hospitably entertained also by the qadi of the town, but I do not know his name.
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1 Saraichiq, about 40 miles from the mouth of the Ural river, called in Turkish ulu-su, ‘Great River’ and by the Arab geographers Yayik.
See vol. II, p. 329.
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(1) AFTER ten days’ journey from al-Sara we reached the city of Sarachuq (chuq means ‘little’, so that it is as if they said ‘little Sara’), which lies on the bank of a great and swollen river called Ulusu, meaning ‘the great stream’. Over it is a bridge of boats, like the bridge of Baghdad. At this city we reached the limit of the journey with the horses that draw the waggons. We sold them at the rate of four silver dinars per head, and even less, on account of their exhaustion and the cheapness of horses in this town, and hired camels to draw the waggons. In this city there is a hospice (2) belonging to a pious Turk of great age, who is called Ata, which means ‘father’. He received us hospitably in it and called down a blessing on us. We were hospitably entertained also by the qadi of the town, but I do not know his name.
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1 Saraichiq, about 40 miles from the mouth of the Ural river, called in Turkish ulu-su, ‘Great River’ and by the Arab geographers Yayik.
See vol. II, p. 329.
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