A Letter To Mansa Musa

Dear Antoinette, It is a joyous year in 1312! My dearest friend as you know Mansa Musa is emperor he is very knowledgable and I have learned to read and write Arabic. Something peculiar has happened, Mansa Musa has been so courteous as to give our enemies a chance to live! We call them slaves and they do whatever you tell them to! They are fairly less then I would expect and the Northerners seem to enjoy them very much, Our country has become very rich indeed! If you ever need money you only need ask as I’ll send you pounds of gold! New traders have come and they bring delightful Jewelry I found a shiny necklace made of fancy jewels the trader called them “Sapphires” and they are as blue as the faraway ocean. I shall enclose the jewels with this letter, tell me how does your brother fare? I still remember when Alois traded me some delicious pickled vegetables that I liked very much… I must go soon traders will come and I have some lovely gold trinkets and bunches of salt to put up on the market, oh yes salt! Have you had it? When you scrape some of the rock onto a food it makes it taste wondrous! Ah yes I must go now, Tell Alois I bid
I still have your letters describing him as a scholarly character of the Muslim religion is that why you have learned Arabic? I have heard of Timbuktu the famous trading city and I have a-many friends who wish to come to your country in hopes of gold and salt. I find it wondrous that Musa has taught his people well although he doesn’t need to it makes everything easier for our people and the Northerners to come and find the supplies we need, Alois is ill a sickness unknown to my people has overcome him and I fear for my brothers life all that I have is you and him my only companions and yet you're all I need I must tend to him as he’ll be arriving