Sultan of Tadjoura, Mohammed Loitah, of French Somaliland or Djibouti, and Elders of the Afar Tribe. The Sultan Allegedly Leased Land to the Russian and Cossack Adventurer, Nikolay Ivanovitch Achinov, in 1889 to establish a short-lived Russian settlement in the Gulf of Tadjoura, known as Sagallo, in present-day Djibouti (Engraving, 1889)

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