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"Uushiikum bis salahti, wa maa malakat aimanuku" "Take care of the salat and take care of the weak people among you."
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"Dominating the strait of the same name between Sumatra and the Malay peninsula, Malacca was the richest port of the East, its prosperity dependent, like Singapore's today, on a position astride a natural bottleneck. Here Gujarati, Arab, Chinese, and Malay ships came to trade for spices and all the exotica of the East. (The name is probably derived from the Arabic malakat, "market.")."
--Jack Turner, _Spice: The History of a Temptation_ (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 26-27.
November 28, 2016