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Musa Ud-Damiri (d1405) Hayat ul-Hayawan
(on the animals found in the Koran)
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Taken from: Alex Scobie; The Battle of Pygmies and Cranes in Chinese, Arab and N-American indian sources in; Folklore vol 86 1975

A man of the people of Rumiyah, on a voyage in the sea of Zanj was driven by a storm onto an island, and came to a city the inhabitants of which were about three feet tall, and mostly one-eyed. (the other eye as it turned out being picked out by storks)
A page from his mss.
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