This tidal phenomenon extends to the Lesser Syrtis and to sfax.
"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846"
James Richardson
Mohammed described afterward to a gaping multitude of dirty villagers, while he sat enthroned upon his daughter's threshold, how the star-ship had sailed across the face of the moon and come to a standstill above the mountains, with its beam of yellow light pointing directly downward so that the coast could be seen bright as day from sfax to Cabes.
"The Man Who Rocked the Earth"
Arthur Train Robert Williams Wood
Though many persons must have lost their lives the records are incomplete in this respect; but there is a curious document in the mosque at sfax touching the effect of the Lavender Ray.
"The Man Who Rocked the Earth"
Arthur Train Robert Williams Wood