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The Travels of Marco Polo

Mas’udi speaks of an island Ḳanbălú, well cultivated and populous, one or two days from the Zinj coast, and the object of voyages from Oman, from which it was about 500 parasangs distant. It was conquered by the Arabs, who captured the whole Zinj population of the island, about the beginning of the Abasside Dynasty (circa A.D. 750). Barbier de Meynard thinks this may be Madagascar. I suspect it rather to be Pemba. (See Prairies d’Or, I. 205, 232, and III. 31.)