Primary Source: Kingdom of Mali

“From the beginning of my coming to stay in Egypt I heard talk of the arrival of this Mansa Musa on his Pilgrimage and found people eager to recount what they had seen of his spending. I asked a person and he told me of the riches of Mansa Musa. The man said, “When I went out to meet him, he did me honor and treated me with the greatest ... ................
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