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En route to the coast at the start of his journey to China, Ibn Battuta and his party were attacked by a group of bandits.

Separated from his companions, he was robbed and nearly lost his life.

Despite this setback, within ten days he had caught up with his group and continued on to Khambhat in the Indian state of Gujarat.

From there, they sailed to Kozhikode ( Calicut ), where Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama would land two centuries later.

While Ibn Battuta visited a mosque on shore, a storm arose and one of the ships of his expedition sank.

The other ship then sailed without him only to be seized by a local Sumatran king a few months later.