The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Badía y Leblich, Domingo
(dmng´g bäth´ä lblk´) (KEY) , 17661818, Spanish traveler, known as Ali Bey. Posing as a Muslim, he set out from Cádiz (1803) and traveled through N Africa, Syria, and Arabia, reaching Mecca, of which he fixed the position astronomically. He wrote Voyage d Ali Bey en Asie et en Afrique (1814).