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he sailors of later days have described still more clearly the ways which i to the Mediterranean Sea from the African coast.
Flowing again to the east and the north, it mee' the Indian Ocean and the Chinese Sea. It then travels eastwan till it comes opposite to the far open lands of China.
(2) The second route led from the Indian Ocean to the Abyssinian Sea, then to Zanj, and Berber, called at present Mozam• bique Channel, then to the cape of Good Hope, after which it passed by the African coast and came to the Atlantic Ocean via the Cape of Gibraltar, and then entered the Mediterranean Sea .
that the Caspian Sea is· not linked with the Black Sea. 3 · THE ISLANDS OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN THE Arabs called the great seas beyond Spain ..
Accordingly an enterprising Portuguese navigator, Vasco da Gama, followed the route indicated by the Arabs, and from the shores of the western Africa he came to the Indian Ocean via the Atlantic and reached the coast of eastern Africa.
The famous Arab sailor Ahmad bin Majid, who had made daring voyages in the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, and had the greatest knowledge of the art and instruments of navigation, was also there.
Albuqurque, who was a Portuguese viceroy in India, had a naval map prepared by an Arab sailor named 'U mar, and kept it with him in the 'Urnan Sea and the Persian Gulf (vide .