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stamp of 1889, says ‘II est aujourd’hui occupe par les Anglais a
cause du bon mouillage’.
(d) Gastonnet des Fosses in La France, VAngleterrc et I’ltalie dans
la Mcr Rouge, 1889, states: ‘Le Gouvcrnement britannique
comprenait toute l’importance dc la Mer Rouge ... en mettant la
main sur toutes les positions importantes’, including Kamaran.
(e) Franz Stuhimann in Der Kampf um Arabicn zwischen der
Tiirkei und England, Berlin, 1916, claimed that Britain occupied
Kamaran in 1858 in order to prevent other powers from landing a
telegraph cable on the island.
Another apparent error has crept into James Bruce, Travels
between the Years 1768 and 1773 through Part of Africa, Syria,
Egypt and Arabia into Abyssinia, London, 1805. He claimed to
have seen a Turkish garrison on Kamaran, but this seems a case of
mistaken identity.

Notes

1. Diodorus Siculus, III, 47, 9.
2. A. A. Stamatiades, Kamaran, Paris, 1902, 28.
3. S. H. Sellassie, Ancient and Medieval Ethiopian history to 1270,
Addis Ababa, 1972, 124.
4. Stamatiades, op. cit.
5. I. M. Lewis, Islam in Tropical Africa, London, 1966, 4, and Sellassie,
op. cit.
6. See for example, S. A. Nagi, ‘Historical Glimpse of Yemen’ in F. M.
Luqman, Democratic Yemen Today, Bombay, 1971, 69.
7. S. Labib, ‘Egyptian Commercial Policy in the Middle Ages’, in M. A.
Cook, edit. Studies in the Economic history of the Middle East, London,
1970, 64-65.
8. S. D. Goitein, ‘Mediterranean trade in the 11th century: some facts
and figures’, in Cook, op. cit. 56.
9. Labib, op. cit. 67.
10. Ib. 73.
11. Ib. 71.
12. Ib. 69.
13. Ib. 68.
14. H. W. Codrington, ‘A Sinhalese Embassy to Egypt’ in J.R.A.S.
(Ceylon Branch), 1919, XXVII, No. 72, 82-85.
15. Emmanuel Piloti, L'Egypte au commencement du quinzi&me siicle,
Cairo, 1950, 10.
16. R. Lopez, H. Miskimin and A. Udovitch, ‘England to Egypt
1350-1500: Long-term trends and long-distance trade’, in Cook, op. cit.
128, quoting Labib, Handelsgcschichtc Agyptens in Sp&tmittelalter, 393.