By the best of my calculation, that place where I now was must be that country which, lying between the Emperor of Morocco’s dominions and the negroes, lies waste and uninhabited, except by wild beasts; the negroes having abandoned it and gone farther south for fear of the Moors, and the Moors not thinking it worth inhabiting by reason of its barrenness; and indeed, both forsaking it because of the prodigious number of tigers, lions, leopards, and other furious creatures which harbour there; so that the Moors use it for their hunting only, where they go like an army, two or three thousand men at a time; and indeed for near a hundred miles together upon this coast we saw nothing but a waste, uninhabited country by day, and heard nothing but howlings and roaring of wild beasts by night.
Ezek ellen aztán a mórok olykor nagy hajtóvadászatot vagy inkább hadjáratot indítottak két-háromezer fős sereggel. Közel másfélszáz kilométert vitorláztunk e tengerpart mentén úgy, hogy nappal egy lelket sem láttunk, s éjjel rendszerint a vadállatok vonítását és ordítását hallottuk.