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Cap de Finisterra occidental de Àffrica. Assí comença Affricha e fenex en Alaxandria e an Babilònia, qui fa comensament açi e comprèn tota la marina de Barbaria ves Allexandria e ves migjorn de ves) Antiopia ?...? e an questes plages se trobas molt ivori per la multitude d’oriffants e.l raix que ací arriba e per lo ...

(eng)
Cape Finisterre [end of the land] of Occidental Africa. Here starts Africa, which ends in Alexandria and Babylon; it starts here and encompasses all the Barbarian Coast extending towards Alexandria, towards the south and towards Ethiopia; in these regions there is a lot of ivory due the great amount of elephants