نزهة المشتاق في اختراق الآفاق (Book of Roger — Geography with 70 Maps)

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Land of Lamlam

It has no walls, but its people are traveling merchants. It is like a present village, and they are in obedience to the Takruri. To the south of Barisi is the land of Lamlam, and between them is about ten days. The people of Barisi, Silla, Takrur, and Ghana cross into the land of Lamlam, capture its people, and bring them to their lands, where they sell them to the merchants entering upon them, and the merchants take them out to all the other regions. There are no cities in the entire land of Lamlam except two small ones, like villages. The name of one of them is

Malal, Du

Malal, and the name of the second is Du. Between these two cities is a distance of four days. Its people, as mentioned by the people of that vicinity, are Jews, and disbelief and ignorance prevail among them. All the people of the land of Lamlam, when one of them reaches puberty, have his face and temples branded with fire, and that is a mark for them. Their lands and all their settlements are on the valley of the extension of the Nile. There is no known habitation after the land of Lamlam in the direction of the south.

Land of Maghzara

The land of Lamlam connects from the west to the land of Maghzara, from
Land of Wanaqara

the east to the land of Wanaqara, from the north to the land of Ghana, and from the south to the empty land. Their language does not resemble the language of the Maghzarians nor the language of the Ghanians. From Barisi, previously mentioned, to Ghana in the direction of the east is twelve days, and it is in the middle of the road to the city of Silla and Takrur. Likewise, from
Awdaghust

the city of Barisi to Awdaghust is twelve stages, and Awdaghust is north of Barisi. In the lands of the Sudan, there is nothing of fresh fruits except what is brought to them of dates from the lands of Sijilmasa or the lands of the Zab, brought to them by the people of Wargla original: "Warglan" of the desert. The Nile flows in this land from the east to the west, and there grows on its bank the oriental reed original: "Qasab al-Sharqi", ebony trees, and boxwood trees.

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