The partition of Africa . Arab and Indian settlersfrom the opposite coast of Asia. But it is evident thatearly in the Christian era traders from Egypt, startingfrom Red Sea ports, sailed round by Cape Guardafui,and calling at many ports on the way, went far down theeast coast, possibly as far as the mouth of the Ptolemy himself was no traveller. He was, in truth, knowledge J of Africa. what is sometimes called an armchair geographer. Henot only availed himself of the knowledge accumu-lated by previous geographers, but collected itinerariesfrom traders and travellers from all p
The partition of Africa . Arab and Indian settlersfrom the opposite coast of Asia. But it is evident thatearly in the Christian era traders from Egypt, startingfrom Red Sea ports, sailed round by Cape Guardafui,and calling at many ports on the way, went far down theeast coast, possibly as far as the mouth of the Ptolemy himself was no traveller. He was, in truth, knowledge J of Africa. what is sometimes called an armchair geographer. Henot only availed himself of the knowledge accumu-lated by previous geographers, but collected itinerariesfrom traders and travellers from all parts of the , unfortunately, he did not record verbatim. Hetabulated their results, so to speak, and plotted them onmaps. His distances are often very much out; hisstatements inconsistent with what we know to , and often unintelligible ; but when all allowanceis made, it will be seen that during the 600 or 700years that had elapsed since the time of Herodotus, the AFRICA according to PTOLEMY 150 ~ba, ~>~e<} Liwae Mont Terra Lacognita *BecriituaM. cognita AFRICA according to AL TDRISI 1154. AD.
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