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Bar Ebroyo
(Marine Geography) (1266-1279) a Syriac author
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His map of the climate zones does not mention East Africa only the Horn of Africa
He wrote several books in which he elaborates about Oceanus, the sea that encircles the whole earth.
The Sea Oceanus .... with its flow proceeding southwards, passes by the lands of the Western Arabs and by the Silver Mountain and the Moon Mountains, from whose caves the waters of the river Nile spring, and by the lands of the Abyssinians and the lands of the Nubians, i.e. the whole land of the Cushites...
....flowing further towards the east, passes by the famous islands of the Indians of which one is called Saranbid and another Qumair. (Comoros, Madagascar)
(from Mnorat qudshe 1266)
....it passes Egypt and the land of the Berbers and the Cushites and the whole of Africa. In the proximity of the Silver Mountain, which is also called the Moon (Mountain) it becomes imperceptible, but it is thought to unite after it with the western sea, from which it began and with which it ends. (from Sulloqo hawnonoyo1279)