Departure in the Red Sea

We have left Port Sokhna and our now in the Red Sea for our first Maritime voyage. Our plans are to make it to Guangdong in China. I estimate our trip shall take us about a year and a half, but I do hope its a lot less. I'm not sure if I suffer from seasickness and I don't really want to find out. We should be able to ride out one of the monsoons on our way to Indonesia which should definitely cut our trip time down. We still have a large sum of gold with us so we don't have to worry much about food and trade goods. Since we will be meeting many Muslim traders along the way I'm glad we have Ibn with us.As we pass through the Gulf of Suez we are still able to see land on both sides of us. This is reassuring to us since we have only been on a boat once before, from Venice to Tunis. My hand is still hurting me and I only hope it doesn’t become infected because I have no faith in Mark, who claims to have medical experience. I notice that many of the names of cities and landforms have been changed a lot in the recent times. My map collection back in Greece had many different names for everything. I attributed these recent changes primarily to the spread of Islam. We were also informed we would make a quick stop in Jeddah to pick up some Muslim missionaries.