A TOUR IN SOMALIA, C. 16 JUNE 1945 - The water point of Isha Baidoa, between Afgoi and Bardera. Isha in Somali means a spring or eye. At the end of the Gilal or dry season, people come from as far as forty miles away to fetch their drinking water. In addition, the springs are used for irrigating Arab shambas (farms) along the banks of the river bed, where there is a flourishing business in market gardening. In this picture the people are filling cans and pots with water and loading them on to their donkeys. A black and white copy negative ,

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