And it was from the town of Lisbon that the adventurers set out known under the name of Mughamarin, penetrated the ocean of fogs and wanted to know what it contained and where it ended. No navigator traverses them but bypasses them remaining near their coast. There are many islands, some of which are inhabited, others are submerged. Its atmosphere is foggy, its waves are very strong, its dangers are perilous, its beasts are terrible, and its winds are full of tempests. Nobody has the sure knowledge of it, because it is very difficult to traverse it. Beyond this ocean of fogs it is not known what exists there. The Commander of the Muslims Ali ibn Yusuf ibn Tashfin sent his admiral Ahmad ibn Umar, better known under the name of Raqsh al-Auzz to attack a certain island in the Atlantic, but he died before doing that. Beginning in 1970 a critical edition of the complete Arabic text was published. More recently sections of the text have been translated for particular regions. This was a translation into French by Pierre Amédée Jaubert. Not until the middle of the 19th century was a complete translation of the Arabic text published. The Maronite's Gabriel Sionita and Joannes Hesronita translated an abridged version of the text which was published in Paris in 1619 with the title of Geographia nubiensis.

The first translation from the original Arabic was into Latin. This was one of the first Arabic books ever printed. An abridged version of the Arabic text was published in Rome in 1592 with title: De geographia universali or Kitāb Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī dhikr al-amṣār wa-al-aqṭār wa-al-buldān wa-al-juzur wa-al-madā’ in wa-al-āfāq which in English would be Recreation of the desirer in the account of cities, regions, countries, islands, towns, and distant lands.

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