Note 91 — EL IDRISI COMPARED WITH EL BEKRI.
Reading edition
Rec. de Voy. pp. 12, 206. Arkí (see Note 38) appears under various forms in the copies of El Idrísí; as Arḳi ارقى Rec. de Voy. pp. 12, 107; Azḳi ازقى; Azki ازكى Ibid. p. 206, and in the Abridgment. Ibn el Wardi also writes Azki, which, he says, is the place where travellers (ascending the Desert from Wád Nún) begin to climb the rocks (Not. et Extr. II. p. 23). Ibn Baṭúṭah travelled forty-five days from Sijilmésah to Aïwalátin, or Walata, whence Silla cannot be less than twenty days’ distant. From the latter place to Wád Nún is now reckoned a journey of fifty-five days (Davidson’s Notes, &c.).