. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. MASSAWAH. 179 obliged to take refuge in the interior. It also happened that the Abyssinian sovereigns, in whose interests it is essential that the port of Massawah shotild remain open to the outer world, have wasted the country to retaliate on the slave- dealers and corsairs. By virtue of recent treaties, the approach to Massawah, now an Italian port, although the Egyptian flag still flies on the walls, is to be made Fig-. 58.—Massawah. Scale 1 : 100,000. vV -,. 39°25 L . of GreenwicK 'sQ-e?- Depths. 0 to 32 Feet. 32 to 80 Feet. 80 Feet and upward
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. MASSAWAH. 179 obliged to take refuge in the interior. It also happened that the Abyssinian sovereigns, in whose interests it is essential that the port of Massawah shotild remain open to the outer world, have wasted the country to retaliate on the slave- dealers and corsairs. By virtue of recent treaties, the approach to Massawah, now an Italian port, although the Egyptian flag still flies on the walls, is to be made Fig-. 58.—Massawah. Scale 1 : 100,000. vV -,. 39°25 L . of GreenwicK 'sQ-e?- Depths. 0 to 32 Feet. 32 to 80 Feet. 80 Feet and upwards. 2^ ]Mile8. completely free to the trade of Abyssinia. This port of the Eed Sea is therefore, if not politically at least commercially, more than ever a natural dependency of Abyssinia, and its importance, already considerable, cannot fail to increase rapidly if peace is maintained on the plateaux. Detached forts command the approaches of the town and mark the limits of an intrenched camp in which the Egyptian governor formerly maintained a corps of 3,000 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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