Note 88 — EL IDRISI COMPARED WITH EL BEKRI.
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El Idrísí places Nún, or as he writes it, Núl, at a distance of three days from the sea, and thirteen (erroneously reduced to three by Hartmann) from Sijilmésah (Rec. de Voy. V. p. 205). But the town of Wád Nún is one or two days (22 miles) from the sea (Davidson’s Notes), twelve from Tatta, and sixteen from the chief town of Darʿah (Proc. of Afr. Assoc. I. p. 224), which is six days from Sijilmésah (Jackson’s Shabeeny, p. 3). The last-named place must, therefore, be twenty-two days from Wád Nún, and twenty-three, at least, from the sea. In like manner El Idrísí reduces to three and eight days respectively the distances of Sijilmésah from Darʿah and Aghmát, which El Bekri, confirmed by modern itineraries, estimates at six and fourteen days.