Jalus
جالوس
An island near the Binman islands. The author reports from informants that its people eat human flesh. They have no king and live on coconuts and sugar cane 1.
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Jalus is an island near the island of Painman. Al-Idrisi reports, from some transmitters, that its people eat human beings, that no king of theirs is known, and that they live on coconut and sugar cane. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 78
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.78
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