On the way to Yemen, Ibn Battuta travels to the Island of Sawakin.
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Title
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On the way to Yemen, Ibn Battuta travels to the Island of Sawakin.
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Description
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“After two days’ travelling we reached the island of Sawakin [Suakin]. It is a large island lying about six miles off the coast, and has neither water nor cereal crops nor trees. Water is brought to it in boats, and it has large reservoirs for collecting rainwater. The flesh of ostriches, gazelles and wild asses is to be had in it, and it has many goats together with milk and butter, which is exported to Mecca. Their cereal is jurjur, a kind of coarse grained millet, which is also exported to Mecca. The sultan of Sawakin when I was there was the Sharif Zayd, the son of the amir of Mecca.”
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Subject
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Travel
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Date
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1330
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Bibliographic Citation
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Ibn Batuta, Gibb, H. A. R. S., Sanguinetti, B. R., & Defremery, C. (1958). Travels of Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1325-1354. Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press.
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Source
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Gibb 107.
