"Muhammad ibn-Babishad added, 'If you are on the sea and you want to know whether you are near the land or a mountain, look out in the afternoon when the sun is going down; if when it goes down there is actually a mountain or island on the opposite horizon, it will be visible then.'"
Buzurg ibn Shahriyar of Ramhurmuz, Kitab 'aja'ib al-Hind (mid-10th century A.D.)
translated in Le livre des merveilles de l'Inde (1883-86).
Quoted in George F. Hourani, Arab Seafaring (1951)
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