I will highlight everytime when something somali related is mentioned
P15
First climate......... the northern part of the island of Qomar........ The archipelago of the Zendjs....... the sea of Yemen......... Berberah, the island of Soqotra........The northern part of the mountain chain called mountains of the moon, the two lakes from which leaves the river Nil and one more lake, the land of Demadem and Habyssinie are in this first climate.
P22
(about rivers in the first climate). 36 (rivers) you find on the other side of the equator among those 4 are on the island of Qomor; they are called Aghbab, 10 come out of the mountains of the moon, er-Rahun on the island of Serendib, Djob, the big and the small one, in the land of Maqdashou, 2 in the land of Daghoutah, 3 in the land of Ousthiqoun, 3 on the island of Anfoudjeh, the river Sefaqis, the river Temin, the river d'Alhou on the other side of the mountains of the moon , the river of Loqmeraneh , the river Dahneh and 2 rivers on the island of Serirah.
P23
Alexander the Great divided the people of the earth: he called one part Europe, consisting of ....... another Ifriquia consisting of Egypt, the Arab gulf, Habesh, Zendj, and the southern ocean.
According to the opinion of Said al-Andalousi , the Negroes and the Berbers are one race to the north of them are situated the Koptes and the Yfrendj; the Indians and the Zendjs.......
CHAPTER 3 FOUR RIVERS
P138-139
The river of the Damadim is a great stream with copious water. It too issues from lake Kuri (or Kourah) and passes through the territory (majalat) of the Damdam of the Sudan and Lamlam of the Zunuj and Qaljur and Hajami of the Habash being for one month between steep mountains where no profit is made of this water ; then the water goes to the east traversing in ten days the land of the high Khasse, of Ablin, of Akaky and of Kenawer during one and a half month towards the north-east; then it returns to the south through the land of Hawiah up to the red Makdishu, where it has an arm called Wabi-river, which goes through the lands of Zaila, Badi, Zengbar, and the coast of Berbera, close to the land of Makdashou it splits in three arms, one of which is the big Gubb, the other one the small Gubb, the third the river of Demdem. On the shores of these three rivers live the Zeng tribes, and the Sudan Negroes, and among the cities there is Sofalat az-Zeng and Kiljata (Kilwa). All three end up in the southern part of the Zeng sea, 2 deg or 3 deg on the other side of the equator.
P154
On the island of Dhoudha, close to the coast of Maqdashou, at a distance of one and a half days from the island of Habesh, there is a source which gives birth to a river, of which the water has the smell of camphor.
CHAPTER 6 THE SOUTHERN SEA
P200
The island of Qomar will be mentioned after this.
When the sea has passed the Island of Qomar, she becomes bigger and has several names, and this after the coasts and places she passes; but all those different seas are only one, of which the longest stretch extends from in the west Maqdashou, Sofalah and Berberie of Soudan…
P201
Then the sea reaches the coasts of Dagouta, and the ones of the land of Zandj-ez-Zendj, of Maqdashou the red one and the land of Kalbeh, inhabited by Zendj Muslims, having reached its biggest extension along the equator, she takes a direction in a circular form , sometimes towards the North-west sometimes North-east; here it is called sea of Berberie or Red Sea, because of the dangers the navigators meet there. This sea stretches to the north, up to a black mountain in the sea which is called Khafouny, no ship passes there without the risk of failing. That is why when approaching one does his vows and humbles oneself before the Almighty, it is only through His grace that one is saved. Then it passes the coasts of Hawya, called this way because it resembles hell because of the heat and the intensity of the fire of the sun, then those of Berberah, a part of Demdem and lower Abyssinie, the land of Djebra, of Badhi, of Zendjebar, Zeila, and Outil, where it forms a golf called sea of Qolzoum……
P204
To the east is the sea of Qomor or Qomar or Loqmeraneh.
Towards the south we arrive at the sea of Zendj or of Berberah, of which the coasts are called Zendjbar.
P215-216
The islands of Diba (Laccadive and the Maldive) are a coherent group, with Arab people; the biggest island is called Diba or Diab, it is 400 miles in circumference, you find there the banana tree, sugar cane, the coconut tree and the cassier. It is a halting place for the ships going to Kish, Hormuz, India, Yemen. Magadoxo on the Zanguebar and Abyssinie.
P218
About the islands of the sea of the Zendj and the marvels of that sea, also called sea of Berbera or sea of Maqdashou the red one:
According to the geographers, the sea of the Zendj carries this name because it follows the shores of the land of Zendj; it is also called sea of Berbera, because its coasts are inhabited by a race of Negroes, speaking the Berbera language, of which the pronunciation is very fast, like of a man who is leaving, and Red Sea because of the dangerous waves, the high temperature and the fire that is visible at night. The land of the Zendj is situated towards the south under Canope, and the sea at its shores together with the Pacific, is like this one, covered in darkness. If ones goes south on this sea you see the two poles, south and north together, going further south the pole star together with the chariot disappears and a heap of unknown stars appear on the horizon.
Among the islands of this sea, Qambalou is among the islands of the Zendjs; it is densely populated, one can find there ebony, spices and gold mines.
The island of Thaisan, with a big and violent crater, which blows out fire with a terrible noise, so that nobody can live in its neighbourhood, because of the enormous heat that reigns there.
The island of Berbera is populated by Muslim Negroes, who belong to the Zeidite sect and Shafiite.
The island of Qothroubia, circumference of 300 miles, has two villages from the Zendjs, and a very high mountain, where live the Gouls, called Qothroub, because of their ferocity.
CHAPTER 9 ABOUT THE DIFFERENT TRIBES
P390-391
To the tribes of the Negroes belong also the Zendj or the Zaghouah, called after Zagou, son of Qofth b. Micr b. Kham; they are divided in two tribes, the Qabliet and the Kendjewiat, the first name means ants, the second dogs. Their capital is Maqdashou, where the merchants of all countries go. It owns the coast called Zenjebar, which has several kingdoms. They are divided into several tribes, are most of the time naked, and are the most savage of all people. The land (of the Zendjs) is 700 parasangs long and wide, it has rivers and mountains, habitations and sand plains, it is combined with Daghuta and the coast of the Pacific where is the island of Komar with the dome of Aris in the middle of the equator. The people who live on its borders are known for their enormous cruelty, they sharpen their teeth so they can eat the human flesh; they have no religion or religious opinion, but only the law ordained by their kings. The supreme king is called Touqlim (or tuqlim or buqlim) meaning 'son of the Lord' a name that has been conserved by all kings in all ages. Among the northern Zenj are some who have a literary language in their own tongue so that they compose discourses, inserting tearful homilies which they recite at gatherings on their festivals and commemorations.
About the other Negro tribes, who live on the shores of the sea of India and the one of Sind and Mend, they say they are brothers, descendants of Noufir b. Qopt or of Koush b. Kham.
P15
First climate......... the northern part of the island of Qomar........ The archipelago of the Zendjs....... the sea of Yemen......... Berberah, the island of Soqotra........The northern part of the mountain chain called mountains of the moon, the two lakes from which leaves the river Nil and one more lake, the land of Demadem and Habyssinie are in this first climate.
P22
(about rivers in the first climate). 36 (rivers) you find on the other side of the equator among those 4 are on the island of Qomor; they are called Aghbab, 10 come out of the mountains of the moon, er-Rahun on the island of Serendib, Djob, the big and the small one, in the land of Maqdashou, 2 in the land of Daghoutah, 3 in the land of Ousthiqoun, 3 on the island of Anfoudjeh, the river Sefaqis, the river Temin, the river d'Alhou on the other side of the mountains of the moon , the river of Loqmeraneh , the river Dahneh and 2 rivers on the island of Serirah.
P23
Alexander the Great divided the people of the earth: he called one part Europe, consisting of ....... another Ifriquia consisting of Egypt, the Arab gulf, Habesh, Zendj, and the southern ocean.
According to the opinion of Said al-Andalousi , the Negroes and the Berbers are one race to the north of them are situated the Koptes and the Yfrendj; the Indians and the Zendjs.......
CHAPTER 3 FOUR RIVERS
P138-139
The river of the Damadim is a great stream with copious water. It too issues from lake Kuri (or Kourah) and passes through the territory (majalat) of the Damdam of the Sudan and Lamlam of the Zunuj and Qaljur and Hajami of the Habash being for one month between steep mountains where no profit is made of this water ; then the water goes to the east traversing in ten days the land of the high Khasse, of Ablin, of Akaky and of Kenawer during one and a half month towards the north-east; then it returns to the south through the land of Hawiah up to the red Makdishu, where it has an arm called Wabi-river, which goes through the lands of Zaila, Badi, Zengbar, and the coast of Berbera, close to the land of Makdashou it splits in three arms, one of which is the big Gubb, the other one the small Gubb, the third the river of Demdem. On the shores of these three rivers live the Zeng tribes, and the Sudan Negroes, and among the cities there is Sofalat az-Zeng and Kiljata (Kilwa). All three end up in the southern part of the Zeng sea, 2 deg or 3 deg on the other side of the equator.
P154
On the island of Dhoudha, close to the coast of Maqdashou, at a distance of one and a half days from the island of Habesh, there is a source which gives birth to a river, of which the water has the smell of camphor.
CHAPTER 6 THE SOUTHERN SEA
P200
The island of Qomar will be mentioned after this.
When the sea has passed the Island of Qomar, she becomes bigger and has several names, and this after the coasts and places she passes; but all those different seas are only one, of which the longest stretch extends from in the west Maqdashou, Sofalah and Berberie of Soudan…
P201
Then the sea reaches the coasts of Dagouta, and the ones of the land of Zandj-ez-Zendj, of Maqdashou the red one and the land of Kalbeh, inhabited by Zendj Muslims, having reached its biggest extension along the equator, she takes a direction in a circular form , sometimes towards the North-west sometimes North-east; here it is called sea of Berberie or Red Sea, because of the dangers the navigators meet there. This sea stretches to the north, up to a black mountain in the sea which is called Khafouny, no ship passes there without the risk of failing. That is why when approaching one does his vows and humbles oneself before the Almighty, it is only through His grace that one is saved. Then it passes the coasts of Hawya, called this way because it resembles hell because of the heat and the intensity of the fire of the sun, then those of Berberah, a part of Demdem and lower Abyssinie, the land of Djebra, of Badhi, of Zendjebar, Zeila, and Outil, where it forms a golf called sea of Qolzoum……
P204
To the east is the sea of Qomor or Qomar or Loqmeraneh.
Towards the south we arrive at the sea of Zendj or of Berberah, of which the coasts are called Zendjbar.
P215-216
The islands of Diba (Laccadive and the Maldive) are a coherent group, with Arab people; the biggest island is called Diba or Diab, it is 400 miles in circumference, you find there the banana tree, sugar cane, the coconut tree and the cassier. It is a halting place for the ships going to Kish, Hormuz, India, Yemen. Magadoxo on the Zanguebar and Abyssinie.
P218
About the islands of the sea of the Zendj and the marvels of that sea, also called sea of Berbera or sea of Maqdashou the red one:
According to the geographers, the sea of the Zendj carries this name because it follows the shores of the land of Zendj; it is also called sea of Berbera, because its coasts are inhabited by a race of Negroes, speaking the Berbera language, of which the pronunciation is very fast, like of a man who is leaving, and Red Sea because of the dangerous waves, the high temperature and the fire that is visible at night. The land of the Zendj is situated towards the south under Canope, and the sea at its shores together with the Pacific, is like this one, covered in darkness. If ones goes south on this sea you see the two poles, south and north together, going further south the pole star together with the chariot disappears and a heap of unknown stars appear on the horizon.
Among the islands of this sea, Qambalou is among the islands of the Zendjs; it is densely populated, one can find there ebony, spices and gold mines.
The island of Thaisan, with a big and violent crater, which blows out fire with a terrible noise, so that nobody can live in its neighbourhood, because of the enormous heat that reigns there.
The island of Berbera is populated by Muslim Negroes, who belong to the Zeidite sect and Shafiite.
The island of Qothroubia, circumference of 300 miles, has two villages from the Zendjs, and a very high mountain, where live the Gouls, called Qothroub, because of their ferocity.
CHAPTER 9 ABOUT THE DIFFERENT TRIBES
P390-391
To the tribes of the Negroes belong also the Zendj or the Zaghouah, called after Zagou, son of Qofth b. Micr b. Kham; they are divided in two tribes, the Qabliet and the Kendjewiat, the first name means ants, the second dogs. Their capital is Maqdashou, where the merchants of all countries go. It owns the coast called Zenjebar, which has several kingdoms. They are divided into several tribes, are most of the time naked, and are the most savage of all people. The land (of the Zendjs) is 700 parasangs long and wide, it has rivers and mountains, habitations and sand plains, it is combined with Daghuta and the coast of the Pacific where is the island of Komar with the dome of Aris in the middle of the equator. The people who live on its borders are known for their enormous cruelty, they sharpen their teeth so they can eat the human flesh; they have no religion or religious opinion, but only the law ordained by their kings. The supreme king is called Touqlim (or tuqlim or buqlim) meaning 'son of the Lord' a name that has been conserved by all kings in all ages. Among the northern Zenj are some who have a literary language in their own tongue so that they compose discourses, inserting tearful homilies which they recite at gatherings on their festivals and commemorations.
About the other Negro tribes, who live on the shores of the sea of India and the one of Sind and Mend, they say they are brothers, descendants of Noufir b. Qopt or of Koush b. Kham.
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