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

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...and many soldiers, a grand entrance, commanders, troops, complete regalia, and fine equipment. They ride horses and camels and possess power and dominance over the nations surrounding their lands. The clothing of the common people of Kuku is skins, with which they cover their private parts, while their merchants wear tunics and garments, with turbans on their heads. Their ornaments are gold. Their nobles and the elite wear wraps. They intermingle with merchants and sit with them, trading with them engaging in business on the basis of muqarada profit-sharing partnership/commenda. Serpentine wood In the land of Kuku grows the wood known as 'ud al-hayya snake wood. Its unique property is that if it is placed on the sea of the snake, it comes out to it, drawn in. Then the holder of this wood takes from the snakes what is similar to it without feeling any fear, and he finds strength in himself when taking them. The correct view among the people of the Far Maghrib and the people of Warkalan is that if a person holds this wood in his hand or hangs it around his neck, no snake will approach him at all. This is famous. The appearance of this wood is like the appearance of 'aqar qarha pellitory root, twisted, but it is black in color. From the city of Kuku to the city of Ghana is a month and a half. From the city of Kuku to the city of Tamala in the east is fourteen stages, and it is a small city in the land of Kawar, populated with many people, and it has no wall. From Tamala to the city of Mathan in the land of Kanem is twelve stages. Mathan is a small city and has none of the usual industries, and their trade is small. They have camels and goats. From the city of Mathan to the city of Abkhimi is eight days, and it is also from Kanem. Abkhimi is a very small city, and its people are few, and they are in themselves lowly, and they cross...