The East African part of a medieval map of one of the many mss of Pseudo ibn al Wardi
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Ishaq Ibn al-Housain (950); Kitab akam al-mardjan fi dhikr al-madan al machhoura fi houll makan
(Book of pieces of coral about towns well known and all places)
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Taken from: Youssouf KamaltomIIIfasc2

The Nile comes out of the lands of the Soudan and out of the Djabal al-Qamar south of the equator, nobody ever reached its origin.
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