They conspire in this and believe each other. I asked them about a trace, how it was. He said: a trace, but round, consecutive, like this... on one line. So I spoke to my companions, and we saw that trace. It was an intrusion from its people. So they were amazed. The Qadi al-Daliil, the Qadi al-Qudat of the Wadai kingdom, told when he came to Cairo, 57 times the disease called al-Haytha, and their fear, they called it al-Hawa al-Asfar, which came to Egypt from the Hijaz. 47 times it went to their lands, and it lingered there and killed many people. I think it will not reach there. So glory be to God, the doer of what He wills. None can reverse His judgment. Among the many common diseases that occur among them is the "Frangi" (European disease), and it appeared among them with great intensity and was widespread among them due to much corruption. They have no cure for it except cauterization. The method of this cauterization is that they bring an iron, which they call "al-Sumama" among them, and this iron is rectangular, excessively wide, about two qirats in width and five qirats in length, and its middle is wide. When it is heated, they shape it into a composite tubular form, and its middle is wide. When the iron is heated, they take it out of the fire and pour a little water on the tube. Then they insert a stick into that tube, which they use to reinforce it. And it will have the redness that appeared in the disease, without exception. And whenever this disease afflicts someone who has family...