Musa made his pilgrimage in 1324, his procession reported to include 60,000 men, 12,000 slaves who each carried 4-lb. gold bars, heralds dressed in silks who bore gold staffs, organized horses and handled bags. Musa provided all necessities for the procession, feeding the entire company of men and animals.
[8] Also in the train were 80 camels, which varying reports claim carried between 50 and 300 pounds of gold dust each.
He gave away the gold to the poor he met along his route. Musa not only gave to the cities he passed on the way to Mecca, including Cairo and Medina, but also traded gold for souvenirs. Furthermore, it has been recorded that he built a mosque each and every Friday.
Musa's journey was documented by several eyewitnesses along his route, who were in awe of his wealth and extensive procession, and records exist in a variety of sources, including journals, oral accounts and histories. Musa is known to have visited with the Mamluk sultan
Al-Nasir Muhammad of Egypt in July 1324.
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Musa's generous actions, however, inadvertently devastated the economy of the region. In the cities of Cairo, Medina and Mecca, the sudden influx of gold devalued the metal for the next decade.
If only they had sunglasses back then...
. You probably got sucked into a wikipedia whirlpool. I'd still like to know what you were originally looking up though and why.
, and I googled German/African women and wound up at the "Afro-German" Wikipedia page and I scrolled down and saw his picture and name. 
