Their king pretends before his subject to be a Muslim and most of them pretend to be Muslims too. He has a town on the Nile on the eastern bank, which is called Sarnāh, where there are markets and trading houses and to which there is continuous traffic from all parts. He has another town to the west of the Nile [Niger where he and his men and those who have his confidence live. There is a mosque there where he prays but the communal prayer ground is between the two towns.