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Here is a lacuna in my MS., in which instead of copying the Arabic text I wrote a 

 few lines in a German translation, of which the meaning is given in the English 

 version added to this text. After that, my copy continues : — 



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Translation. 



" The Jewish merchants called Ranians, who speak Persian, Rum- 

 ish, Arabic, Spanish and Sicilian (Italian,) travel by land and sea from 

 East to West, and from West to East. They export from the West 

 (from Europe,) male and female slaves,* soldiers, brocades, beavers 

 and swords ; they sail from the country of the Franks on the Western 



* The Bishop of Aries wrote a book against the Jews to Charle-Magne, in which 

 he accuses them of stealing and forcing away Christian children, and of transporting 

 them as slaves to Spain and Africa. 



