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Updated: May 8, 2025

The inhabitants are all black, and the Jews also. The latter are good and benevolent. They know the law of Moses and the prophets, and to a small extent the Talmud and Halacha. Thence it is twenty-three days by sea to Ibrig , and the inhabitants are fire-worshippers, and are called Duchbin.

of Tudela Benjamin - The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela

Professor Sayce states that the Rukh figures much not only in Chinese folk-lore but also in the old, Babylonian literature. Benjamin has already made it clear that to get from India to China takes sixty-three days, that is to say twenty-three days from Khulam to Ibrig, and thence forty days to the sea of Nikpa.

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