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APPENDIX. 
No. V. 
This Appendix contains a translation of the accounts given by Ibn '1 
Wardi and Marco Polo, respecting Abyssinia and the adjoining districts, 
(referred to in p. 476,) a few miscellaneous observations on Massowa, and 
some particulars regarding the trade of Zeyla and Mocha ; to v^^hich is 
subjoined the sea-journal of the 6th and Tth of July, by which I have 
endeavoured to fix the position of Abdelcuria, and the north-west end of 
the Island of Socotra. 
Extract from a geographical Work written in Arabic by Ibn 'I Wardi. 
" Habesh. — This country is opposite to the Hejauz, and between them 
is the sea. Most of the natives are Christians ; and it is a long and ex- 
tensive country, stretching from the east to the south of Nubia. These 
" (the Habshi,) are the people who conquered Yemen in the time of the 
" Chosroes, before the introduction of Islamism. Their women are beau- 
tiful, and delicately made. One of their chief cities is Kaber," (An-kober, 
the present capital of Efat,) " which is the metropolis of the King, and 
" in it are many banana trees. The Habesh do not eat the male of com- 
mon fowls." (This last remark is so far correct, that they will not eat 
them after they have once crowed, owing to some singular superstition, for 
which they could not account.) 
Zeyla is the emporium of Habesh to the south ; the natives of which 
are a powerful people. Islamism prevails among them, and integrity in 
doing what is right. 
Boja, or Bujja.* — These people are the merchants of Habesh to the 
" north, their country lying between Habesh and Nuba ; and they are 
" black, naked, and worshippers of idols. Their land is divided into 
many petty districts : they are sociable, good, and kind to merchants : 
" and in their conntry is a mine of gold. They have no towns, nor crops 
" of corn ; but their land is an extensive desert. The merchants" (pro- 
* These are undoubtedly the tribes mentioned in the Axum inscription. 
