Post by priesteria on Jul 8, 2012 10:17:11 GMT -5
(From the Arab traveler Ibn Batutu's account of a land identified by Doctor Rizal as Northern Luzon, in about 1344. The paragraph about the European visitor is from the travels of the Italian Franciscan, Friar Odoric, who was there twenty years earlier.)
You, Priest, I have had brought here by my guards because, of all your ship's company, you alone scorned my invitation. You told your captain that we people of Northern Luzon are infidels; and that it would be against the prophet's law for you, a holy man, to eat our food.
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You, Priest, I have had brought here by my guards because, of all your ship's company, you alone scorned my invitation. You told your captain that we people of Northern Luzon are infidels; and that it would be against the prophet's law for you, a holy man, to eat our food.
kahimyang.info/kauswagan/history_current_events/1224-about_the_ancient_filipino_culture_and_prominence_of_women_by_princess_urduja