Then he asked her, "My child, where are you going to? Tell me."
She said, "Father, have you no understanding? I am going to the country of the Sultan Makami."
Her father said to her, "My child, you are already lost. Do you not know that a woman may not go to the country of Sultan Makami? Any other than a male who enters the country is put to death."
Binti Ali said to him, "Father, have you no wits, you, a full-grown man, who rule all this land? Do you not see that all these clothes which you have bought for me are men's clothes? I want to go and see Makami's country."
Her father said, "I do not approve of this journey you are setting out upon."
His daughter replied, "What becomes of me is in the hands of God."
Then she entered the bathroom and washed herself, and when she came out she was dressed as a man. Now that girl had wisdom more than all her sisters, and she was well read in the Koran.
She took her dog, whose name was Atakalo, and she entered the ship and set sail.
She travelled day and night for three years, and there in the midst of the ocean she taught her dog till it attained great learning.
At the end of the third year she drew near to the country of Sultan Makami, and she ordered a salute to be fired, and the people on land replied also with a salute.