I have ventured, my dear Lumsden, to address you in, and inscribe to you, these pages. Within your hospitable walls my project of African travel was matured, in the fond hope of submitting, on return, to your friendly criticism, the record of adventures in which you took so warm an interest. Dis aliter visum! Still I would prove that my thoughts are with you, and thus request you to accept with your wonted bonhommie this feeble token of a sincere good will. Averse to writing, as well as to readi

CHAP. II. Life in Zayla CHAP. III. Excursions near Zayla CHAP. IV. The Somal, their Origin and Peculiarities CHAP. V. From Zayla to the Hills CHAP. VI. From the Zayla Hills to the Marar Prairie CHAP. VII. From the Marar Prairie to Harar CHAP. VIII. Ten Days at Harar CHAP. IX. A Ride to Berberah CHAP. X. Berberah and its Environs...

Harar, from the Coffe Stream Map of Berberah Route to Harar The Hammal Costume of Harar H. H. Ahmed Bin Abibakr, Amir of Harar [Illustration] I doubt not there are many who ignore the fact that in Eastern Africa, scarcely three hundred miles distant from Aden, there is a counterpart of ill-famed Timbuctoo in the Far West. The more adventurous Abyssinian travellers, Salt and Stuart, Krapf and Isenberg, Barker and Rochet,—not to mention divers Roman Catholic Missioners,—attempted Harar, but attemp

On the 28th October, 1854, Lieutenant Speke arrived at Kurayat, a small village near Las Kuray (Goree Bunder), in the country called by the Somal "Makhar," or the eastern maritime region. During the period of three months and a half he was enabled to make a short excursion above the coast-mountains, visiting the Warsingali, the Dulbahanta, and the Habr Gerhajis tribes, and penetrating into a region unknown to Europeans. The bad conduct of his Abban, and the warlike state of the country, prevente

Lieutenant Speke has passed through three large tribes, the Warsingali, the Dulbahanta, and the Habr Gerhajis. The Warsingali have a Sultan or Chief, whose orders are obeyed after a fashion by all the clans save one, the Bihidur. He cannot demand the attendance of a subject even to protect the country, and has no power to raise recruits; consequently increase of territory is never contemplated in this part of the Somali country. In case of murder, theft, or dispute between different tribes, the

Made by Lieutenant Speke, during his Experimental Tour in Eastern Africa, portions of Warsingali, Dulbahanta, &c.   Date. | 6 A.M. | Noon. | 3 P.M. | Meteorological Notices. —————————————————————————————————————   1854. Oct. 29. 70° 87° *112° Wind from the N. E. strong. (*Exposed  " 30. 70 87 85 Ditto. to sun.)  " 31. 68 88 85 Ditto. Nov. 1. 67 88 82 Ditto. (These observations from  " 2. 62 86 85 Ditto. the 29th Oct. to the 7th  " 3. 59 86 " Nov., were taken in the  " 4. 65 86 84 Ditto.

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It has been found necessary to omit this Appendix. [Editor's note: This appendix, written in Latin by Burton, contained descriptions of sexual customs among certain tribes. It was removed by the publisher of the book, who apparently considered it to be too risque for the Victorian public.] The author is Lieutenant, now Commander, WILLIAM BARKER of the Indian Navy, one of the travellers who accompanied Sir William Cornwallis, then Captain, Harris on his mission to the court of Shoa. His services