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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 journey 
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 UlilH;o 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 cities, 
or as it were villages, and those are Malel and Dau, situated 
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 inha- 
bitants 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. All 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 king- 
dom of Lamlam. That kingdom joins on the west to Mec- 
zara, on the east to Vancara, on the north to Ghana, and on 
the south to the desert ; and its people use a different lan- 
guage from those of Meczara and Ghana. Between Berissa 
above-mentioned and Ghana, to the east, is a journey of twelve 
days : it lies in the midway which leads from thence to the 
