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Ibn Sasra: al-Durra Mudia fi al-l-Dawla al-Zahiriya
(Chronicle of Damascus) (1397)
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Taken from: A Chronicle of Damascus, 1389-1397 by Muhammad ibn Muhammad Ibn Sasra - 1963
The origin of the Nile of Egypt is in the Mountain of the Moon, and it pours
into two lakes beyond the Equator. It circles about in the land of Nubia and Ethiopia, and comes to Egypt, where part of its pours out at Damietta into the Red Sea Rum.