| NAMES OF PLACES. | LONGITUDE. | LATITUDE. | NOTES. | ||
| D. | M. | D. | M. | ||
| The Equator | 12 | . | . | . | The lat. is taken at 12° N. of the true Equator. V. p. 66. |
| The Island of Ṭirúfái | 12 | 35 | 15 | . | |
| Shore of the Atlantic | 11 | . | . | . | |
| Island of Ḳumbulah (Madagascar. | 21 | . | 8 | . | Ḳumr, according to Yaḳút AbulFeda. gives Ḳunbalah. Geog. II, III, 127. Guyard. |
| Sinus Avalites | 12 | 30 | 8 | 25 | The Gulf of Aden. |
| Ghánah, gold mines, a town in the Sondán. | 30 | . | 10 | . | Said by Ibn Sayd to be on the Niger, gold dust exported. M. Cooley in his Negroland, p. 44 locates it near Timbuctoo. Abul Fed. Geog. Reinaud II, 1, 21. |
| SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR. | |||||
| Kúkú | 44 | . | 10 | 15 | On its W. Ghanah: on the E. Kanem, probably Gogo. Abul F. Geog. II. I. Guyard. |
| Sofálah of the Zanj country | 52 | . | 2 | 30 | In the Mozambique country, S. of the Zambesi. |
| Middle of the Lake of Koura. | 68 | . | 4 | . | According to the Resm Al Mamour, its centre is placed in 53°½ Lon. Lat. zero. Left bank 52° Lon. right bank 54°. Ibn Sayd makes the Egyptian Nile flow out of its N. quarter, the Nile of Madakshon from the E. and the Nile of Ghanah (Niger) from the W. On its E. and S. a mountain called Almaksam. Reinaud, Abul F. II, I. |
| Jími on the Nile | 63 | 15 | 9 | 11 | The text has the min. of Lat. 401.! According to Ibn Sayd, it is in 53° Lon. Lat. 9° 3'—capital of Kanem country and called by Makrízí, Aldjema. Reinaud Geog. Abulf, II. I. |
| Saharta | 64 | . | 6 | . | A dist. of Abyssinia, Lon 54° Lat. 5°, but the 1st climate of Ibn Sayd begins from the Equator and terminates at 16° 27' N. Lat. See Reinaud ibid for a dissertation on this tract. |
| Jarmi, capital of Abyssinia | 65 | . | . | 6 | Probably Júmi, identified with Axum, formerly Axuma. Rein. ibid. |
| Zagháwah | 66 | . | . | 2 | The Lon. varies from 54° to 60° and the Lat. from 1° to 11½ in three tables given by Abulf. The people of Zagháwah are subject to the Kanem and their country is 20 marches from Dongola, marked in K. Johnston S. of new Dongola. |
| Hadyah | 66 | . | 2 | . | Lon. 57° 3' N. Lat. 7°, a town of Abyssinia S. of Vefat or Aufat, Reinaud, ibid. The latter name De Sacy makes synon. with Jabart common to whole country of Zeylah. Chrest. Arab, I. 457. |
| Zailah | 71 | . | 8 | . | Ibn Sayd 66° Lon. 10° 55' N. Lat. Kanunu'l Mumtanih and Kitáb-u'l Atwal. 61° —the port is well-known. |
| Makdishú | 72 | . | 2 | . | Now called Magadoxo on the littoral below Somali land. |
| Aden | 76 | . | 11 | . | |
| Barbera | 78 | . | 6 | 30 | In the Gulf of Aden. |
| Sinus Adulicus | 12 | 15 | 12 | 30 | <Greek>. Annesley Bay. The text has confounded this with the Sinus Avalites, but Ukert's Table of Climates shows what is intended. Adulis, the modern Zulla is placed by Ptolemy, Lon. 67. Lat. 11⅔. Cosmograph, Fol. Venet, 1486. |
| Shibám, capital of Haḍramaut. | 81 | 15 | 12 | 30 | |
| Mirbáṭ, between Haḍramaut and Omán. | 82 | . | 12 | . | It is situate in the litoral of El Shehr and is the port of Dhafar. The mountains of Dhafar are famed for the incense produced there. |
| Island of Serandíp (Ceylon). | 130 | . | 12 | . | Aṭwál and Ḳánún, Lon. 12° Lat. 10°. |
| Island of Socoṭra, of India | Caret. | Aṭwál, Lon. 74° 30', Lat. 13°. Ḳánún Lon. 66° 30', Lat. 9°. Abulf. Lon. 74° 30'. Lat. 9°. | |||
| Mountains of Ḳámerún produces Lignum Aloes. | 130 | . | 10 | . | According to Reinaud (Introd. Abulf. ccclxxxvii.) this is Kamrúp in Assam, called by the Arabs Camroun and famous for its aloes. (See p. 125, Vol. II, Ain. Akb.) The Easterns, like Ptolemy, brought the whole of India and Malacca in proximity with the Equator, Reinaud, Abulf. II, I. The incredibility of this location with a difference of 2 deg. between Ceylon and Kámrup, made Gladwin take this for Cape Comorin; but I have little doubt that the Kamerún Mts. opposite to the Is. of Fernando Po are here meant. |
| Island of Lámri, of India produces the wood baḳḳam. | 130 | . | 9 | . | The Lambri of Marco Polo. (Rein. II. I. 131). Bakkam is the Caesalpinia found in most parts of India of which Roxb. gives 18 kinds. It is a kind of Brazil wood. |
| Island of Kalah, of India | 140 | . | 8 | . | Called by Abulf. the port of all the regions between Oman and China. Exports tin called by its name, i. e., kalại, which Reinaud says may be from the Malay <Arabic>. Walckenạer places Kalah in Malacca in the province of Keydah opposite the island of Sumatra. Introd. Abulf. 414. |
| Island of Maháráj, of India | 150 | . | 1 | . | A large island in the Green Sea (Indian Ocean). Abulf. II, II, 132. Ibn Said says that the Mahárájah are in clusters of numerous islands, the largest of which is the seat of royalty, most probably Borneo. The Arabs extended India as far as the Java Archipelago, V. Reinaud I, cccxxxi. |
| Yamakoṭi | 176 | . | 5 | . | See Vol. II, p. 13, and Vol. III, p. 29. |
| Sila, in China | 180 | . | 8 | 5 | Extreme of Eastern China. Abulf. Reinaud II, II, p. 124; according to Reinaud, the Corea. |
| Gangdizh, on the shore of the Eastern Sea. | 180 | . | . | . | See p. 29 Vol. III. |
| Iram, “adorned with lofty pillars” (Kurán 89), said to be in Yemen. | . | . | . | . | See Sale's Koran for the story of this paradise of Shaddád b. Aád. It was said to have been fashioned after the paradise of Adam, with walls of gold and columns of ruby and emerald. Ibn Khaldún brushes the fable aside with his usual common sense. |