In the canon
The Cosmography and Geography of Africa
Johannes Leo Africanus
- Form
- Form Travel Writing
- Year
- Year 1550
- Originally in
- Originally in Italian
- Pages
- Pages 600
Pirates took him on his way home from Egypt, a young Moroccan diplomat out of Fez, and instead of a slave market he was handed to Pope Leo X as a gift worth keeping. He learned Italian in Roman captivity and set down everything he had seen on the far side of the Sahara: the salt caravans, the crocodiles of the Niger, the courts of Songhay, and Timbuktu, where books brought better prices than any other merchandise.
My selfe vpon a time trauelling this way, could not finde so much fodder as was sufficient for twelue horses onely.
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