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Ibn Battuta

You're Dead to Me

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Amira's Journey Through the Red Sea

We'regin o look at two major journeys he does through subsahar and africa. Journey number one is when he's really young, it's only a year or so after he's hi's hag to mecca. He travels south by boat on the red sea but then ends up zigzagging backwards and forwards between the arabian and african coasts of the red sea due to conlicts and storms. Eventually ended up in aaden in modern yemens, on the tip of arabia. It's likely that he planned to go to india at that point, but the monsoon winds were against him. So he was speaking to people round the port

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