This island abode is visited by many across the wide oceans from far and distant lands. So diverse are our guests that our officials have had a difficult time cataloguing all their creeds, races, and preferences. Between all their differences, all who wish to enter the ocean city of Amir Qara-Tegin must dock at Bandar-e Taban - or face deadly consequences! However, we doubt many would seek to dock elsewhere, for who could resist our beautiful, patterened and coloured tilework which adorn our doorways and columns of alabaster? Who could resist the allure of bright, clear water lapping at shining marble, the shining fish darting and gliding below? We welcome you, traveller. Enter here at Bandar-e Taban, but present your papers.
The bright sun shines, the hamsi circle beneath the docks.
Silvery them, flitting between the rocks!
Don't they know that other school carries my hook?
I repose on these planks, reading from the anglers' book -
but to these little hamsi, I am but a lying crook..."