The Bantu, who have chiefs in every area, often fight each other. The winners of these battles cut off the genitalia of their victims, whether they are alive or dead. After the harvest of amputated genitalia is dried, the victors offer them to their chief by putting them in their mouths and then spitting them out before him. The chief then has them gathered up and strung on a necklace like beads as a distinguished gift for his bride. It might be compared with the honor of wearing the medal of the Golden Fleece back home. Many of these people are also cannibals, while others sell their captives as slaves to the Portuguese.
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Zare'a Ya'kob ruler of Ethiopia
(Mashafa Milad) (Book of the Nativity)(1445)
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Taken from Zar'a Ya'qob : Das Mashafa Milad
Mentions Makdishu when talking about a battle fought against him at Gomzet or Gomit in Dawaro by the Muslims on 25 dec 1445:
Badlay (ruler of Adal Sultanate 1432-45) for his (military) campains in 1445 (against Zara Ya'qob) had collected numerous levies, beginning with the house of Me'ala ( Bait Mala in N. Eritrea) up to Meqdush (Mogadishu)(all of whom) were allied with the people of Adal.
The sexual parts of those who had died against the king were displayed in the camp of the king and were 40,000 in number. And the ones of which no sexual parts were found, who in the river, or when fleeing or on the roads died, and the ones who during flight were hid by spears, they were 110,000. Then Badlay had assembled many troops from Beta-Ma'ala up to Modadischo, all Adel-allies. They calculated in their lands the numbers of those who had fallen and those who had been captured..........