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Updated: May 29, 2025
Bartema, writing in the sixteenth century "of Barbara and the Island of Ethiope," offers the following brief description: "After that the tempests were appeased, we gave wind to our sails, and in short time arrived at an island named Barbara, the prince whereof is a Mahometan. The island is not great but fruitful and well peopled: it hath abundance of flesh.
And ere evening fell, I had the pleasure of seeing the faces of friends and comrades once more. I cannot guess why Bartema decided "Barbara" to be an island, except that he used "insula" in the sense of "peninsula." The town is at very high tides flooded round, but the old traveller manifestly speaks of the country.
Bartema, Wild, and Joseph Pitt succeeded, and so did Hurgronje, Courtelmont, Burton, and Burckhardt though, the Arabs admit only the two last. "But how many hundreds have been beheaded or crucified? No pilgrimage ever takes place without a few such victims. A race of this type is a potential world-power of incalculable magnitude. Men who will die for Islam and for their master without a quiver "
Bartema, travelling in A.D. 1503, treats in his 15th chapter of "Zeila in AEthiopia and the great fruitlessness thereof, and of certain strange beasts seen there." "In this city is great frequentation of merchandise, as in a most famous mart.
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