Summary of Ibn Battuta's The Travels of Ibn Battuta

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#1 The passage in question is found in Psalmanazar’s Essays, which were written by a layman in town. The place is the following: Hic populi numerosi habitavere Gergesæi, Jebusæi, et alii habentes nomina Hebraeis voluminibus memorata.

#2 The author of these travels, the Sheikh Ibn Batuta, was a Muslim who traveled to many countries and regions in the 1324-5 AD. He visited the city of Tanjiers, and wrote the following verses on it: May showers enrich thy happy soil, fair land, where fanes and towers arise.

#3 The next city was that of oKābis, and the next pTarābulus. Ibn Batūta then traveled to qMeslāta and rMesurāta, and sKasūra Suit. He passed the tlow grounds, and went to the palace of uBarsīs the devotee.

#4 The Arabian geographers divide Northern Africa into three parts, as given by Abu-Feda in the following extract. The regions of the west consist of three divisions: the most western is known as the Extreme West. This part extends from the shores of the ocean to Tilimsan, considered in an east or west direction.

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