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Updated: May 9, 2025
Marco Polo says: 'The Sokotrans are enchanters, as great as any in the world, though excommunicated by their prelates therefor; and raise winds to bring back such ships as have wronged them, till they obtain satisfaction. It is only just to say we had no need to fear such honest and friendly people.
The hills all about Ras Momi are divided into irregular plots by long piles of stones stretching in every direction, certainly not the work of the Sokotrans of to-day, but the work of some people who valued every inch of ground, and utilised it for some purpose or other.
On the morning of the festive day the Sokotrans, negro slaves being apparently excluded, assembled in a room and seated themselves round it.
The Sokotrans are very crude in their ceramic productions, and seem to have not the faintest inclination to decorate their jars in any way. There were quantities of flamingoes on the beach. We encamped at the foot of the hills, with a watery and sandy waste between us and the village.
It is a great pity that the Sokotrans of to-day do not make more use of the rich ruby-red gum which issues from its bark when punctured, and which produces a valuable resin, now used as varnish; but the tree is now found in more enterprising countries in Sumatra, in South America, and elsewhere. So the export of dragon's blood from its own ancient home is now practically nil.
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