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Abdallatif (1162-1231)a doctor from Baghdad, wrote many books
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Taken from: The original translation.
Also called Abd-Ul-Latif or Abdallatif al-Baghdadi.
............the colocasia is the Egyptian ginger which takes its damp quality, therefore, from the earth of this country : for the same cause its heat and strength decreases. It is thus that the gingers of Zanzibar and of the Indies are stronger and sharper than the Yemeni.
Abd al Latif says that the sources of the Nile are springs which rise in the Mountains of the Moon, eleven degrees beyond the equator.