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From there, it is carried to all the lands, and its food is heavy and spoils the stomach. As for ostrich meat, it is cold and dry meat, and its fat is beneficial among them for deafness, taken as a gargle, and for other bodily ailments. Among the sayings is: "To a village called Makul, a stage, and to a village called Makul, on the belly." And connected to it is a plain called Fahas Kharara, and its length is one mile, with no water in it. And the village of Makul is like a large fortress in Berber, and it has a beneficial market for all the goods brought to it from all the imported commodities and trades that are needed. It has many cultivated fields, gardens, and livestock. From Makul to the village of Ixsis is a small stage, and it is on the plain of Kharara. At the end of the plain, there is a permanent flowing water and it has forests of fruit trees. Lions are there, hostile to people, attacking them by night and day, not hiding in their thickets. And in it is the "Lion's Den" of Ixsis, a house built for hunting lions, so much so that sometimes three or four, or even more, are hunted in a week. Lions and leopards flee from fire when they see it, and have no way to reach the one with the fire. From the village of Ixsis to the city of Sla is a stage. The modern city of Sla is on the shore of the sea. It was once a city rich in pomegranates. Shala is two miles from the sea, and its location is like the river Asmir, which is now connected to the modern city of Sla. And there is the ancient tomb of Sla, which is now in ruins, and it has remaining standing buildings, connected structures, cultivated fields, and livestock. And for the modern Sla, it is from the sea, and protected from the sea side. No one from the inhabitants of the watchtowers can reach it from that direction. It is a beautiful, fortified city in the land of Ankale.