They are a very great people and inhabit a most fertile country.

But all round their country the land is desolate and manless, peopled only by game, for the reason that they will suffer none to dwell there.

That is why nobody knows anything about them: he that comes across the wilderness into that land is killed and never returns to tell of it.
"She told me also that she was born of this people, but fled because their sultan wished to place her in his house of women, which she did not desire.

For a long while she wandered southwards, living on roots and berries, till she came to desert land and at last, worn out, lay down to die.

Then she was found by some of the Mazitu who were on an expedition seeking ostrich feathers for war-plumes.