A hundred leagues? Impossible. I emerged from the Akkaban wastes no more than fifteen leagues from here, roughly northeast of our present location.
[He helpfully points out the direction indicated.]
I know not any of those nations. Are you truly speaking of nations, sir, and not rural provinces?
We set sail from Apulia and arrived on the shores of Lesser Armenia. From there we traveled by foot to Antioch, and were very near to Jerusalem when I became separated from my company...
[Whirling, he seizes the mage's shoulders forcefully.]
Look, man, this cannot be all foreign to you. Saladin's lineage is an Egyptian family, the Ayyubids. Surely you know of them? The Ayyubids of Egypt? God, man, do you know nothing? Not even of Jerusalem? Even the most heathen man in these lands can point me the way to Jerusalem.
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[He helpfully points out the direction indicated.]
I know not any of those nations. Are you truly speaking of nations, sir, and not rural provinces?
We set sail from Apulia and arrived on the shores of Lesser Armenia. From there we traveled by foot to Antioch, and were very near to Jerusalem when I became separated from my company...
[Whirling, he seizes the mage's shoulders forcefully.]
Look, man, this cannot be all foreign to you. Saladin's lineage is an Egyptian family, the Ayyubids. Surely you know of them? The Ayyubids of Egypt? God, man, do you know nothing? Not even of Jerusalem? Even the most heathen man in these lands can point me the way to Jerusalem.