The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Vol. II

Note 152 — GOMES EANNES DE AZURARA;

C. Raymond (Charles Raymond) Beazley translation

At a point named Asafi or Safi (at the extreme south-west of our Marocco), said to have been named after the Wanderers' exclamation of dismay: Wa Asafi—"Alas! my sorrow." Cf. Edrisi, Climate III, section i (ed. Jaubert, i, 201); Climate IV, section i (J., ii, 26-9). Safi is in 32° 20' N. Lat.

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