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west to the Ocean sea. It is burned by the sun, which falls 
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 corrupted. 
TakrouTy or TaJcdouTf (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 iSCHEABEDDIN, (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 river, which has not its equal upon the earth ; it 
