"الجغرافيا الشرقية لابن حوقل، رحّالة عربي من القرن العاشر" [‎١‎٣] (٣٨٨/٦٦)

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OfBajeh, and Abyssinia, and Nubia.
F rom Kolzum, on the west of the sea (the Red Sea), the
dry deserts stretch very far, to the land of Bajeh. The in
habitants of Bajeh are blacker than the Abbyssinians, like the
Arabs*; and they have not either cities, villages, nor cultivated
land— nothing but what they bring from Yemen, Ahbyssinia,
Egypt, or the land of the Greeks
This country (BajehJ is situated between Habesh,
Abbyssinia, the land of Nubia, and Egypt. In it are gold
mines, which extend from near the borders of Egypt to a certain
castle on the sea-coast, which they call ^zjij^zAssatf ; a distance of
about ten merhileh. Among these mines is a place called
Miami, situated on a level ground. There are not in any quarter
of the world such gold mines as these. In Bajeh they worship
idols, or any thing that seems pleasing to their eyes. Those who
immediately border on the land of Abbyssinia are Christians, and
of the same complexion as Arabians.
* Probably it should have been " Blacker than the Arabs, and like the Abbys
sinians."
t This word is so equivocally written in the MSS. that it may be As sab, &c.