جزيرة موريشيوس ومن اكتشفها

📘 The Discovery of Mauritius
(1)
In the Alberto Cantino map of 1502, the Arab name of Mauritius Island appeared as Dina Arobi. Historians claim that the Arabs communicated this name to the Portuguese, and based on this fact they concluded that the former had already discovered Mauritius by that time.

📝 Question

1. The word the former in the passage refers to.............
   ✅ D. Arabs
   A. Mauritius Island
   B. Dina Arobi
   C. Portuguese
   D. Arabs