[13] "With the Sinbad story is connected the historical extension of the Arab settlements in the East African coast through the enterprise of the Emosaid family."
[14] The school of Persian mathematicians who produced the maps of Alestakliry-Ibn-Hankal, the book of latitudes and longitudes, ascribed by Abulfeda to Alfaraby the Turk, was the immediate descendant of Albyrouny.
[15] The world he divided by climates in the Greek manner, taking no account of political divisions, or of those resting on language or religion. Each climate was further subdivided into ten sections. In the shape of Africa he followed Ptolemy.
[16] Yacout "the ruby," originally a Greek slave, who made a brave but fruitless attempt to change his name into Yacoub or Jacob, became one of the greatest of Arab encyclopædists, was checked by the hordes of Genghiz-Khan in his exploration of Central Asia, and died 1229.
[17] By some supposed to be S. Carolina, by others the Canaries.
[18] From St. James of Compostella.
[19] Unless White Man's Land and Great Ireland are the Canaries. See above, p. 63.
[20] Camoëns, Lusiads, (Barton's trans.).
[21] And a certain number of Viking sailors seem to have preceded Ohthere on his voyage to the Dwina.
[22] As completed about a.d. 1000-1040.