Honey Abundant and Cattle Numerous, Al Bakri
10th century • Awdaghust
"Wheat is grown there by digging with hoes, and it is watered buckets . . . Excellent cucumbers grow there, and there are a few small fig trees and some vines, as well as plantations of henna which produce a large crop . . . [There are] wells with sweet water. Cattle and sheep are so numerous . . . honey is abundant, brought from the land of Sudan."
Al Bakri in Nehemia Levtzion and J.F.P. Hopkins, Corpus of Early Arabic Sources from West African History (Cambridge: CUP, 1981).
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