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Timbuktu
"Many of the merchants who visit Timbuktu are so much attached to the place that they cannot leave it, but continue there for life... almost every stranger marries a female of the town, who are so beautiful that travelers often fall in love with them at first sight."
- Shabeni's description, from An Account of Timbuctoo and Hausa, James Grey Jackson (1820)