The sixth sea is called Kardanj it is very rainy. The fifth sea is called Salahit and is very large and filled with wonders. Here are islands where the camphor tree grows. Sometimes they ride the wind and smash ships. The fourth sea is called Kalah and is shallow and filled with huge serpents. In the islands of this sea grow bamboo and rattan. Here are islands with kings, but there is one king over them.

The third sea is called Harkand, and in it lies the Island of Sarandib, in which are precious stones and rubies. It contains huge fish, and in it are many wonders and things that pass description. It is a big sea, and in it is the Island of Waqwaq and others that belong to the Zanj. The second sea begins at RaвЂ™s al-Jumha and is called Larwi. It ends at RaвЂ™s al-Jumha it is a strait where pearls are fished. The first of them is the Sea of Fars, which men sail setting out from Siraf. Whoever wants to go to China must cross seven seas, each one with its own color and wind and fish and breeze, completely unlike the sea that lies beside it. In the 9th century AD, author Ya'qubi wrote: They were trading routes in ancient times and since the time of Muhammad, they are the places where Islam spread and is widely practised. The Arabs and their near neighbours considered the Seven Seas ( Arabic: Ш§Щ„ШЁШШ§Ш± Ш§Щ„ШіШЁШ№Ш©) to be the seas that they encountered in their voyages to The East. The International Hydrographic Organization lists over 23 distinct bodies of water called seas. The World Ocean is also collectively known as just ' the sea'. The term can now also be taken to refer to the seven oceans (oceanic bodies of water): The Seven Seas was part of the vernacular of several nations long before some of the oceans named were known to the inhabitants of Europe and Asia, and is referred to in the literature of the ancient Hindus, Chinese, Persians, Romans and other nations. The phrase is used in reference to sailors and pirates in the arts and popular culture and can be associated with the Mediterranean Sea, and/or the Arabian Seven Seas east of Africa and India (as told with Sinbad's seven journeys, and Captain Kidd), or is sometimes applied to the Caribbean Sea and seas around the Americas (with pirates such as Blackbeard). The 'Seven Seas' (as in the idiom 'sail the Seven Seas') was and is a figurative term for all the seas of the known world.

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