[4] Ritter, Africa, p. 605.  The statement appears to be taken from
    Burckhardt’s Nubia, but the reference is not quite clear.  There is
    nothing about this army in Quatremere’s Mem. sur la Nubie. (Mem. sur
    l’Egypte, vol. ii.)

[5] Armandi indeed quotes a statement in support of such use from a
    Spaniard, Marmol, who travelled (he says) in Abyssinia in the
    beginning of the 16th century.  But the author in question, already
    quoted at pp. 368 and 407, was no traveller, only a compiler; and the
    passage cited by Armandi is evidently made up from the statement in
    Poggio and from what our traveller has said about Zanjibar. (Supra, p.
    422.  See Marmol, Desc. de Affrica, I. f. 27, v.)

[6] 834 for 836.

[7] On Aufat, see De Sacy, Chrestom.  Arabe, I. 457.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF ADEN.

You must know that in the province of ADEN there is a Prince who is called the Soldan.  The people are all Saracens and adorers of Mahommet, and have a great hatred of Christians.  There are many towns and villages in the country.

This Aden is the port to which many of the ships of India come with their cargoes; and from this haven the merchants carry the goods a distance of seven days further in small vessels.  At the end of those seven days they land the goods and load them on camels, and so carry them a land journey of 30 days.  This brings them to the river of ALEXANDRIA, and by it they descend to the latter city.  It is by this way through Aden that the Saracens of Alexandria receive all their stores of pepper and other spicery; and there is no other route equally good and convenient by which these goods could reach that place.[NOTE 1]

And you must know that the Soldan of Aden receives a large amount in duties from the ships that traffic between India and his country, importing different kinds of goods; and from the exports also he gets a revenue, for there are despatched from the port of Aden to India a very large number of Arab chargers, and palfreys, and stout nags adapted for all work, which are a source of great profit to those who export them. [NOTE 2] For horses fetch very high prices in India, there being none bred there, as I have told you before; insomuch that a charger will sell there for 100 marks of silver and more.  On these also the Soldan of Aden receives heavy payments in port charges, so that ’tis said he is one of the richest princes in the world.[NOTE 3]

And it is a fact that when the Soldan of Babylon went against the city of Acre and took it, this Soldan of Aden sent to his assistance 30,000 horsemen and full 40,000 camels, to the great help of the Saracens and the grievous injury of the Christians.  He did this a great deal more for the hate he bears the Christians than for any love he bears the Soldan of Babylon; for these two do hate one another heartily.[NOTE 4]