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This week: Nasir Khusraw embarks on his epic travels (later chronicled in his Persian language travelogue Safarnama), the Toucouleur Empire in West Africa reaches its zenith, the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end, and more.