From east to west, and built on its model, the "Turkish element" and the ebony tree, and the shammar, and the khilaf, and the tarfa, and the anil. Our watering places are connected, and in them their cattle rest and dwell, and to them they incline and seek shade during intense heat and the fervor of summer. In its watering places are lions, giraffes, fulan, wild asses, anil, rabbits, and guinea fowl. In the Nile are various kinds of fish and types of whales, large and small. From it comes ostrich, which most of the Sudan consider a delicacy, and they possess and store it. It is extremely fat and plump. The weapons of the people of this land are the spears and the clubs, and they rely on them. The dabdabis are also among their weapons, which they make from the ebony tree, and they have great skill and craftsmanship in them. As for their clothing, it is from the Turkish element, and their shirts are also from it, as are their cloaks. The construction of the people of this land is with mud and long, wide wood. They have little of it. Their ornaments are copper, beads, and necklaces of glass, and banaduq, and la'ab al-shaykh, and types of jewelry made of colored glass. These things and conditions that we have mentioned, of food, drink, and clothing, which most of the Sudan practice in all their land, because it is a hot land with intense heat. The people of the cities cultivate onions, gourds, and watermelons, and they have much of them. They have no bitter melon or grains, except for millet, from which they make their bread and drink. Most of their meat is fish and the meat of fattened camels, as we have mentioned and heard. We have finished mentioning what was contained in the first part of the first climate, and praise be to God alone. What this second part of the first climate contains.

Of the cities are the cities of Mallal, Ghayata, Tairfa, Madasma, Saghmara, Ghayara, Ghurbil, Ghayamiya. Al-Sharmi. Al-Samsar. And they hunt. And the tuwayl. And al-banaduq. And al-khuyayl. And al-muqarrabaat. And al-malayis. And marasa. And Ghayara. And Ghumara. And Saghmara.