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Tajuddin Ibrahim Ahmedi:
Iskender-Name (d1413) Anatolian Ottoman
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Taken from : The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal 1838
Author is known as Ahmedi; Is a mystic epic poem.
In Canto VII Alexander sets out for Zanguebar and reaches the mountain of snakes; from thence he proceeds to the island of Quackquack, so called because the fruits on the trees of the island are birds which, by an instinctive intelligence, cry out Quack, quack, whenever a traveler visits the place