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and Tocrur is a kind of large grained millet, fish, and prepa- 
ration of milk ; their cattle are chiefly camels and goats ; the 
common people wear hair garments, and woollen caps on 
their heads ; but the dress of the nobility is a cotton vest and 
a mantle. From the aforesaid cities to Segelmessa is a jour* 
ney of forty days, at the rate of the caravan's travelling : The 
nearest place to this, within the limits of the desert of Lemp- 
tuna, is Azca, at the distance of twenty-five stations ; and tra- 
vellers carry water with them for two, four, five, and six days. 
In like manner from the Isle of Ulil to Segelmessa are nearly 
forty stations, computing by the caravan stages. Berissa lies 
eastward on the Nile at the distance of twelve stations from 
Tocrur ; this is a little city, not walled, and seems like a po- 
pulous village; but the citizens are merchants, trading to 
all parts, and subjects to the king of Tocrur. To the southward 
of Berissa, at the distance of ten days' march, lies the land of 
Lamlam, into which incursions are made by the inhabitants of 
Berissa, Salla, Tocrur, and Ghana ; there they take numbers 
of captives, whom they carry away to their own countries, and 
dispose of to the merchants trading thither ; these afterwards 
sell them into all parts of the world* 
In the whole land of Lamlam there are but two small ci- 
ties, or as it were villages, and those are Malel and Dau, situ- 
ated at the distance of four days' journey from each other. 
Their inhabitants, as people of those parts relate, are Jews, 
and most of them unbelieving and ignorant. When any of 
all the inhabitants of the kingdom of Lamlam comes to have 
the use of his reason, he is burnt in the face and temples ; this 
they do to distinguish each other, AH their countries and 
dominions are near a certain river, flowing into the Nile. It 
is not known whether there is any inhabited place to the south 
of the kingdom of Lamlam. That kingdom joins on the west 
to Meczara, on the east to Vancara, on the north to Ghana, 
and on the south to the desert ; and its people use a different 
language from those of Meczara and Ghana, between Be- 
