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In 1325, the young lawyer Ibn Battuta set out from his home in Morocco on a pilgrimage to Mecca. A love for travel was born in him along the way. Battuta’s travels eventually took him through Africa, Southwest Asia, and all the way to China, about 75,000 miles, and lasted three decades. In the following excerpt from his book, he describes his visit to Mogadishu:

Among the customs of the people of this town is the following: when a ship
comes into port, it is boarded from sanbuqs, that is to say, little boats. Each sanbuq
carries a crowd of young men, each carrying a covered dish, containing food.
Each one of them presents his dish to a merchant on board, and calls out: “This
man is my guest.”

http://www.classzone.com/books/wh_05_sh ... 424_PS.pdf

Berber -> Berberawi, as the land surrounding Berbera was know by Arabs as Bilad al Berber.

It's not Berbers from North Africa, a clear difference.