ABSTRACT
His Majesty … [was] observing the city with great delight, … in which concurs great natural goodness and fortune, … because of the multitude of its peoples, magnificence of the sacred and lay buildings, the capacity and security of its port, trade and process of the goods, [it] is a universal [trading] centre of the Orb, because of the wealth of their citizens, concurrence of many nationalities, that meet and reside in it, it seems a World Condensed. 1
