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Charles-Jacques Poncet
Charles-Jacques Poncet was a French physician working in Cairo who travelled through the Funj Sultanate to Ethiopia in 1698–1700 to treat the emperor Iyasu I. His account of the journey, published in 1704, gives one of the few European eyewitness descriptions of Sennar at the height of the Funj sultanate, including its markets, court and trade.
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