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¶ D'africa a chapolia ad a facesse
Sum molte seche da lato remote
E chi vol navicar indi a chapesse
Fra epsi -e- litto per canal si puote
E seguen poi fin a rassa mabesse
Ma qui bisogna che de fuora sia ruote
Da tunis insin qui per maestrale
Trecento miglia sum per dritto strale.

¶ Poi tripoli cita de barbaria
Cinquanta cinque miglia inver levante
E misurata su per quella via
Ducento miglia e duo volte atretante
Sum fin a rusen per traversia
Dove fa capo il gran monte athalante
Lassando uno golfo ov'e a man drita
Çianarra e poi Sernich e tholomita

¶ E chi girasse il golfo per costiera
Serebon piu de le miglia ducento
Dal cavo di rausem a bonandria
Sum cento miglia pur per dricto vento
Lucho piu su ducento par che stia
E indi ad Alexandria a quatro cento
E quasi in meço d'epse sta la rassa
E questo paese -e- terra bassa

[image, left margin: Map with east at the top depicting a stretch of the Algerian and Tunisian coasts up to the Gulf of Gabes with Kerkennah Islands and Djerba. Ocean painted aquamarine with wave pattern in grey; the coastline heightened yellow. At top, three islands are in a darker green. Near ¶ 2 there is a a reddish-brown city with blue domes and spires. Placenames: in the water, close to the first two islands, in red ink, vertically, (label: cherchani). On the mainland, in red ink, from the top down: (label: Ixola de gierbi), (label: Caps), (label: fachse), (label: susa); in black ink, (label: cavo bono). The city is named as (label: Tunis.); further names, continuing down the coast, in red ink: (label: Cartagine), (label: biserto), (label: Bona), (label: angholo), (label: Bugiea), (label: algieri).]

As you go from Africa^{1Not the continent but the city of Al Mahdia} to Capulia^{2Rass Kaboudia, Tunisia, a point south of Tunis} and then to Facesse^3Sfax,
there are many shallows on the far side.
Whoever wants to navigate from there to Capesse^{4Gabes, Tunisia},
can sail along the shore by way of a channel,
and after that, follow it as far as Rasamabes^{5Ra's al Makhbaz, Libya}.
But if you need to turn around here,
you can get to Tunis by the northwest wind;
it is a straight shot for three hundred miles.

Next is Tripoli, city of Barbary^{6As previously, referring to the coast of north Africa but derived from the tribe of the Berbers.},
which is up that way about fifty-five miles to the east.
Misurata is along the same route,
two hundred miles of hardship
—and twice again—until [Cape] Rausem ^{7Ras es-Sem, Libya},
where the great Atlas mountain [range] begins.
This leaves behind the gulf on the righthand side,
with Zianarra^{8 Az-Zuwaytinah, Libya}, Benghazi, and Tolometta^{9Ad Dirsiyah, Libya}.

For those who continue to follow the curve of the gulf,
it's more than two hundred miles along the coast.
From the peak of Rausem to Bonandrea^{10now Ra's al Hilāl, Libya}
it is a hundred miles or so with a steady wind.
Luco^{11Lukk, Libya} is about two hundred miles further,
and from there to Alexandria it is four hundred.
Almost half that distance again is La Rassa^{12Often labeled in the maps as Larissa; now al-ʿArāʾish, Sinai}:
this is a low-lying region.

¶ D'africa a chapolia ad a facesse
Sum molte seche da lato remote
E chi vol navicar indi a chapesse
Fra epsi -e- litto per canal si puote
E seguen poi fin a rassa mabesse
Ma qui bisogna che de fuora sia ruote
Da tunis insin qui per maestrale
Trecento miglia sum per dritto strale.

¶ Poi tripoli cita de barbaria
Cinquanta cinque miglia inver levante
E misurata su per quella via
Ducento miglia e duo volte atretante
Sum fin a rusen per traversia
Dove fa capo il gran monte athalante
Lassando uno golfo ov'e a man drita
Çianarra e poi Sernich e tholomita

¶ E chi girasse il golfo per costiera
Serebon piu de le miglia ducento
Dal cavo di rausem a bonandria
Sum cento miglia pur per dricto vento
Lucho piu su ducento par che stia
E indi ad Alexandria a quatro cento
E quasi in meço d'epse sta la rassa
E questo paese -e- terra bassa

[image, left margin: Map with east at the top depicting a stretch of the Algerian and Tunisian coasts up to the Gulf of Gabes with Kerkennah Islands and Djerba. Ocean painted aquamarine with wave pattern in grey; the coastline heightened yellow. At top, three islands are in a darker green. Near ¶ 2 there is a a reddish-brown city with blue domes and spires. Placenames: in the water, close to the first two islands, in red ink, vertically, (label: cherchani). On the mainland, in red ink, from the top down: (label: Ixola de gierbi), (label: Caps), (label: fachse), (label: susa); in black ink, (label: cavo bono). The city is named as (label: Tunis.); further names, continuing down the coast, in red ink: (label: Cartagine), (label: biserto), (label: Bona), (label: angholo), (label: Bugiea), (label: algieri).]

As you go from Africa^{1Not the continent but the city of Al Mahdia} to Capulia^{2Rass Kaboudia, Tunisia, a point south of Tunis} and then to Facesse^3Sfax,
there are many shallows on the far side.
Whoever wants to navigate from there to Capesse^{4Gabes, Tunisia},
can sail along the shore by way of a channel,
and after that, follow it as far as Rasamabes^{5Ra's al Makhbaz, Libya}.
But if you need to turn around here,
you can get to Tunis by the northwest wind;
it is a straight shot for three hundred miles.

Next is Tripoli, city of Barbary^{6As previously, referring to the coast of north Africa but derived from the tribe of the Berbers.},
which is up that way about fifty-five miles to the east.
Misurata is along the same route,
two hundred miles of hardship
—and twice again—until [Cape] Rausem ^{7Ras es-Sem, Libya},
where the great Atlas mountain [range] begins.
This leaves behind the gulf on the righthand side,
with Zianarra^{8 Az-Zuwaytinah, Libya}, Benghazi, and Tolometta^{9Ad Dirsiyah, Libya}.

For those who continue to follow the curve of the gulf,
it's more than two hundred miles along the coast.
From the peak of Rausem to Bonandrea^{10now Ra's al Hilāl, Libya}
it is a hundred miles or so with a steady wind.
Luco^{11Lukk, Libya} is about two hundred miles further,
and from there to Alexandria it is four hundred.
Almost half that distance again is La Rassa^{12Often labeled in the maps as Larissa; now al-ʿArāʾish, Sinai}:
this is a low-lying region.