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Pagina 209
... Edrisi ; he wrote in Sicily in the eleventh century , and his minute details in describing eastern Africa , procured ... Edrisi . *** Mr . Pinkerton judges Edrisi in these words : It appears , by an attentive pe- rusal of Edrisi , that ...
... Edrisi ; he wrote in Sicily in the eleventh century , and his minute details in describing eastern Africa , procured ... Edrisi . *** Mr . Pinkerton judges Edrisi in these words : It appears , by an attentive pe- rusal of Edrisi , that ...
Pagina 210
... Edrisi appears to have had no knowledge of central Africa . All the countries and towns he cites , appear to belong to the Gir , or to his Nile of the Negroes , that runs to the north west . After his description it appears that Wangara ...
... Edrisi appears to have had no knowledge of central Africa . All the countries and towns he cites , appear to belong to the Gir , or to his Nile of the Negroes , that runs to the north west . After his description it appears that Wangara ...
Pagina 211
... Edrisi on the Niger , and which may be the Jenné of Mungo Park . " Men- telle XVI . 235-239 . The Niger may be considered as the discovery of the Nassomonians , mention- ed by Herodotus , as their relation con- tained the first ...
... Edrisi on the Niger , and which may be the Jenné of Mungo Park . " Men- telle XVI . 235-239 . The Niger may be considered as the discovery of the Nassomonians , mention- ed by Herodotus , as their relation con- tained the first ...
Pagina 213
... Edrisí was founded , were , in most part , cor- rect ; the error lay in mistaking one river for another . Edrisi understood by his Niger , the stream now called Miselad , or some other river , flowing westward from the Egyptian Nile ...
... Edrisí was founded , were , in most part , cor- rect ; the error lay in mistaking one river for another . Edrisi understood by his Niger , the stream now called Miselad , or some other river , flowing westward from the Egyptian Nile ...
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