Note 125 — Chapter XII · THE SPREAD OF ISLAM IN THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO.
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Captain Thomas Forrest, writing in 1775, says that Arabs came to the island of Mindanao 300 years before and that the tomb of the first Arab, a Sharīf from Mecca, was still shown—“a rude heap of coral rock stones” (pp. 201, 313). ↑