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Ibn Battuta - Part 3 - East Africa and Arabia

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The Life and Times of Ibn Batuta

The city of Zayla was a major port for goods coming and going into the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia. Ibn Batuta only spent one night in the city, calling it "the dirtiest, most disagreeable and most stinking town in the world" Author Rossi: The Rihala is a disappointing record of 14th century ship-building and seamanship.

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