An historical account of the ten tribes settled beyond the River Sambatyon in the East; with many other curious matters relating to the state of the Israelites in various parts of the world / Translated from the original manuscript and compiled by M. Edrehi.

  • Edrehi, Moses.
Date:
1836
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Credit: An historical account of the ten tribes settled beyond the River Sambatyon in the East; with many other curious matters relating to the state of the Israelites in various parts of the world / Translated from the original manuscript and compiled by M. Edrehi. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sea, and if they should wish to go up, and travel by land, they will there find many great deserts and woods, and also many cities, with a great many Jews who live in them, near the large river called Ganios or Gozan. It is the river Gozan, of which we have already spoken, which is written of in many books, and known by many Europeans. It is men- tioned in the holy Bible הרי גוזז mountains of Gozan. At the end of the book it is said, that Kalikut is the place where all sorts of spices and incense grow, espe- cially those that are brought from afar, and come from the isles about the Great Sea, an account of which is to be found in those books of the times, □דברי הימי according to which there are fifteen hundred isles in- habited by a great many Jews. Thus it is, that in those parts around the borders and beyond the deserts on the borders of Mika, and also above the deserts of Kalikut, there are many Jews living who have their kings and governors, are respectable and very rich, and reside far from one another. At a great distance from the road of Kalikut are deserts, where there is near a million of Jews. But in the isles just men- tioned, it is impossible to count the number of wealthy Jews, who live there with their kings and governors, of whom there are more than in Europe; they carry on a great trade by land and sea; and there are many neighboring nations who pay them an annual tribute,