Africa of to-day . Somaliland, may be dis-missed with a very few words. Beyond the fact thatthe intensely hot and uncomfortable little port of Djibouti(English writers drop the initial D) affords a meansof entrance to Abyssinia by railway, one hundred andeighty-eight miles long, to Dawa, there is really nothingto be said here. Several authors of interesting booksabout East and Central Africa have gone into thecountry from Djibouti, and their descriptions of effortsto make life at the God-forsaken, dirty little spot apethat of Paris are sufficiently amusing to be read as anincident. Although th
Africa of to-day . Somaliland, may be dis-missed with a very few words. Beyond the fact thatthe intensely hot and uncomfortable little port of Djibouti(English writers drop the initial D) affords a meansof entrance to Abyssinia by railway, one hundred andeighty-eight miles long, to Dawa, there is really nothingto be said here. Several authors of interesting booksabout East and Central Africa have gone into thecountry from Djibouti, and their descriptions of effortsto make life at the God-forsaken, dirty little spot apethat of Paris are sufficiently amusing to be read as anincident. Although the Portuguese had some acquaintance withthe country now included in British Somaliland andItalian Somaliland, we really knew but little of it untilthe Egyptians took possession of Berberah in are some interesting problems for the student ofcomparative philology to unravel, and it is possible thatthe archaeologist may find reward for effort the volume of trade, which is rapidly grow-. Copyright, Underwood er Underwood, N. Y. A Group of Wachagga People On the lower slopes oj Mt. Kilima njaro, East Africa. The entire family, man and beast, is housed in one small hut EASTERN AFRICA 149 ing to considerable proportions, especially in the sectionunder British protection, must command the attentionof the economist. As a field for Christian propaganda,both colonies demand attention from missionaries, as domost of the colonies considered in this chapter. Abyssinia is, it hardly need be said, the most interest-ing, historically, politically, and ethnologically, of allthese countries that we have included in our EasternAfrica. That missionaries of the Christian faith madetheir way into Abyssinia in the earliest centuries of ourera has been accepted as a fact for such a long time thatdiscussion is unnecessary. We shall merely note thatin 330 Frumentius was consecrated the first Bishopof Ethiopia by St. Athanasius of Alexandria, but thatlittle progress wa
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