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Cursory accounts of Zeyla (Zeila), Barbara (Berbera), and Met (Maydh) recorded by the Portuguese official Duarte Barbosa [c. 1516–1518]. The Portuguese text is from an early 16th-century manuscript transcribed and published for the first time by the Academia Real das Sciências in Lisbon [1812], paired alongside the English translation published by the Hakluyt Society [1866]. Because the 1866 Hakluyt edition was translated from a 1524 Spanish copy rather than the Portuguese manuscript, it omits several details preserved in the 1812 Portuguese text, notably the export of opium from Berbera and the Portuguese sackings of both ports. Zeyla (Zeila) Barbosa records Zeila as a place of great trade ("lugar de muyto trato") where foreign vessels discharged cloth and general merchandise. The town featured well-ordered streets and terraced stone and lime houses. The local economy possessed many horses, extensive livestock herds providing milk, butter, and meat, and regional harvests of wheat, millet, barley, and fruit exported across the gulf to Aden. The 1812 Portuguese text documents that Zeila was stormed and destroyed in 1517 by a Portuguese armada commanded by Governor Lopo Soares de Albergaria upon his return from Juda (Jeddah). Barbara (Berbera) Described as a notable coastal settlement and harbour visited regularly by merchant ships from Aden and Cambay (Khambat). Merchants from Cambay exported gold, ivory, opium (amfiam), and assorted trade goods, whilst those from Aden loaded abundant stores of provisions, meat, honey, and beeswax. The 1812 Portuguese text notes that Berbera was attacked, sacked, and burned in 1518 by a Portuguese fleet under António de Saldanha before his squadron sailed for Ormuz (Hormuz). Met (Maydh) Recorded as a small settlement of little trade situated further east along the coast towards Cape Guardafui. Barbosa notes that whilst its commercial activity was negligible compared to Zeila or Berbera, the locality maintained plentiful meat supplies.