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west to the Ocean sea. It is burned by the sun, which fall 
on it perpendicularly, and its inhabitants are naked ; some 
are Musulmen, the others infidels. Among them are found 
gold, rhinoceroses, elephants, giraffes, and large trees, on 
which they place their cottages, and shut up there what they 
have, because on the ground all would be spoiled and cor- 
rupted. 
Talcrour, or Tahdour, (Tocrur.) 
A city of the Soudans, or blacks ; it is large, and without 
walls. Its inhabitants are, some Musulmen, and others infi- 
dels; the former rule, and the king is a Musulman. They 
are naked, men and women ; but the nobles among the Mu- 
sulmans wear cloaks. The women of the infidels wear a piece 
of stuff attached to the girdle. 
Ghana, 
A great city in the southern part of Mogreb, or of Africa, 
near the country of Tibr, or of gold. There is much gold, be- 
cause it is near the mines ; most of the inhabitants are clothed 
in the skins of tigers. 
No. IV. 
DESCRIPTION OF AFRICA, BY SCHEABEDDIN. (ABOUT 1400.) 
The isle of Mogreb (Africa) is in the midst of the seas, which 
water it on all sides. To the east it is bounded by the sea of 
Kolzom, (Red Sea,) to the south and west by the ocean, of 
which God only knows the extent and limits ; to the north it 
has for limits the sea of Kharz, which is that by which the 
Franks came into the holy land by landing on the coast of 
Syria. In the midst of the isle of Mogreb are the deserts of 
the Negroes, which separate the country of the Negroes from 
that of the Berbers. In this isle is also the source of that great 
