 Andrews states his information is derived from an earlier work, "Les Femmes, les eunuques, et les guerriers du Soudan", published by a French explorer, Count Raoul du Bisson, in 1868, though the place does not appear in Du Bisson's book.Remondino's claims were repeated in similar form by Henry G. Spooner in 1919, in the "American Journal of Urology and Sexology".Spooner, an associate of William J. Robinson, referred to the monastery as "Abou Gerbe in Upper Egypt".