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It is beneficial because its ore is mixed with many earthy veins, and it is mixed with others and with merchants. These are from the cities of Kwar and Madinah. We have already mentioned Talmaliah in the first region. This wood that is in the land of Kwar is of the utmost quality, and it is abundant. Every year, an immeasurable amount of it is exported to other countries, and its weight cannot be resisted. Its mines are inexhaustible. The people of that region say that it grows over time and increases at all times by the amount taken from it, and if it were not for that, they would have exhausted the entire earth due to the abundance of what comes out of it and is exported to all the earth. Near Abraz, and to the west, there is a large, deep lake, its length is [number] miles and its width is [number] miles. In it is a large fish similar to the Buri, with delicious flesh, which they call "al-baql". Much of it is extracted from this lake and salted, and it is transported to all the lands of Kwar, where it is cheap and abundant. As for the part of the land of Tagus that these people, the Sudanese whom we mentioned before in the first region, inhabit, we said that they are heedless and do not believe in anything. They are many people and a large gathering. They have many camels and abundant pastures in their lands. They are nomads and do not stay in one place. Whoever lives near them is harmed by them and they attack them and take from them. They have only two cities, which are Tagwah and Simnah, which we have already mentioned in the first region. The mountain of Mufurah surrounds this land, and it is a mountain that extends to al-Baiman. In it are soft earthy veins that are beneficial for eye ailments, similar to the benefit of the dust of the cave near the city of Tuleytulah in the land of Andalusia, which is beneficial for scabies.

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