Complete with these verbs in the past form: live - be - travel - leave - eat - see - tell - meet - walk

- can - go - arrive – visit.

Chapter 1.

Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier. Ibn, his father and his grandfather judges. His first journey was a pilgrimage

to the holy city of Makkah. He his town on a donkey. He was soon ill, but he journeyed to Tunis.

He left Tunis in a caravan of pilgrims and he was the judge of the caravan. When the caravan arrived in Alexandria, he

the old lighthouse in ruins. Not far from Alexandria he a holy man – Burhan Al-Din. He

see into the future. Burhan told Ibn that he was going to visit India and China! And on his travels he was going to meet many old friends.

He in Cairo eight months after he first left home. Near Cairo he the pyramids –

big, old buildings from the rulers of Egypt long ago. Next, he journeyed up the river Nile. After this, he travelled on camels through the hot

desert. There were lots of hungry hyenas there. Then he to the holy city of Jerusalem and visited the

famous buildings there. Next he to Damascus, Arabia and Medina. Finally, after a year and a half, he arrived

in Makkah. There he prayed for three weeks. He left Makkah with the ruler of Persia’s caravan. The most interesting town on that journey

was Wasit. A number of men with no money there in a big house. In the evening, they prayed and

their dinner. Then they sat near a big fire and stories. Suddenly some of them

into the fire! Then they ate the fire. One man put a snake’s head in his mouth and ate it alive!

Complete with these words: old - pearls - wind – daughter - new - journey – water - horse - ruler - chair – back.

Chapter 2.

He wanted to see more of the world. So he travelled with friends to Jeddah on the Red Sea coast, and they sailed down to Yemen. The

made the little ship go up and down in the water, and he felt very ill. When they stopped at a village on the

coast, they got off. They finished their to the city of Aden by camel. Then they went to Oman. After Oman,

they journeyed to the island of Bahrain. He saw young men in little ships who went far under the . When they

came up, they had shells in their hands with wonderful inside them.

He heard interesting stories about the rich of India. People said he gave work to judges from different

countries, so he journeyed north with some friends. On the mountain roads, there was a lot of snow and he

couldn’t find his way back to his friends. So he went on his to find help and he saw a dark little house. There

he met an friend who helped him to find his new friends. Then they went to the Steppe. There they find the

caravan of ruler Khan Ozbeg. It was a big city with shops, mosques and places to eat in it. Ozbeg sat on a big

with his wife, Bayalun, near him. She had a different caravan. Bayalun was the of the ruler of Constantinople.

Ibn travelled with Bayalun to Constantinople and then he went to the Steppe.

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Chapter 3.

For his long winter journey to India, he stopped and waited for the bad weather to change. After four long months, Ibn and his friends

arrived in the north of India, and there they saw something strange: a big animal with a fat body, little legs, and a very big head with a

dangerous horn on it! It was a rhinoceros. They journeyed to the city home of the Sultan of Delhi. He knew a lot about this man before; for
example, he liked judges from different countries and he liked gifts. So, Ibn got thirty beautiful horses and three camels for the Sultan. He

made Ibn one of his judges. He was now a rich and important man! He was, of course, excited to meet him when he arrived home. Ibn

went by horse with the Sultan and his soldiers through the streets of Delhi. They left gold money on the road behind them when they went

past, and people ran here and there to find it. The Sultan could write beautifully, and he could speak four different languages. But he was

often angry, too. Every day he asked his soldiers to kill people, sometimes for very little things.

Ibn took a wife to live with him in Delhi. But then his wife’s father began to fight with the Sultan. This wasn’t good because people began to

speak badly about Ibn. Then the Sultan was angry with a holy man who was Ibn’s friend. The Sultan’s soldiers killed the holy man and

asked about his friends. He was afraid so he stayed five months with another holy man.

One day the Sultan’s soldiers took him to the palace. The ruler wanted Ibn to be his man in China. He left Delhi in a big caravan with gifts

for the ruler of China; his wife and young daughter came with horn, too. They had a thousand of the Sultan’s best soldiers with them and

they met four thousand of the Sultan’s enemies! They fought and killed them all.

He went for a walk in the mountains and forty bandits came out from behind some rocks. They wanted to take all his expensive clothes

and to kill him, too! So he told them lots of good stories, and he gave them all his clothes. In the morning, he was a free man. Luckily a

good traveller found him, and he carried Ibn to the next village.

Two days later, he found the caravan again. Then they sailed south to Calicut, and put everything on three big, Chinese ships. The wind

broke two ships on rocks by the coast and they lost everything – the gifts, the people, and the animals. The third ship – with his wife and

daughter on it – sailed away, and he never saw it – or them – again. He needed to go back to the Sultan and tell him about all this. But Ibn

was afraid. When the Sultan was angry, he often killed people.

Chapter 4.