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Essai sur l'histoire de la cosmographie et de la cartographie pendant le Moyen Age, par le vicomte de Santárem.
On the map 10 names are written along the East African Coast first in the Red Sea and ending in the Indian Ocean.
Inland from these 10 names is a castle: Aicoum da Afra (Axum).
Giovanni Leardo: World Map (1452)
Taken from: The Leardo map of the world, 1452 or 1453, in the collections of the American geographical society,
by John Kirtland Wright
On the East African Coast first along the Red Sea then along the Indian Ocean:
321: dimas / Mont Dismas/ dendeni
290: basag / bafagiler / bagasiles
289: satoris / sataris : Ptolemy has Saturni promontorium
288: traged-it (Country of the Troglodites)
282: M elefans /(Elefant Mountain)
287: scuendn / Jucuendi / sevendi/ Stuendi of Mauro; Suakin ?
286: tobo-let / Tubolect/ tagolet
285: uigie / Aigit / Aigie : Unguji old local name of Zanzibar.
284: gobari / Zobar or Gobar of Leardo map of 1448 which according to Santarem might be Zanzibar
291: acoan / Aicoum da Afra : Axum now in Eritrea.
306: dixerto : desert
292: safola: Sofala
293: medi\fola ?
294: prouinzie\dofir: Davaro of Mauro ; ? Dawaro in Abyssinia
295: gfen\uj ?
296: flmodo ?
297: dela… ?
307: qui nase homeni \ che ano II uolto \ nel petto (here are born men who have the face in the chest)
In West Africa are situated the sources of the Nile; East Africa has only a branch of the river.
Four streams run out of the mountains of the moon into a lake from which a stream goes to the
Atlantic and on the other site of the lake the Nile starts.
