Area.—Preeminently encroaching. From 4° to (there or thereabouts) 16° north latitude. Irregular.
Chief divisions.—1. Galla Proper, or Ilmorma—south and east of Abyssinia.
2. Somauli—The parts between the Sea of Bab-el-Mandeb, the Indian Ocean, and (there or thereabouts) 45° east latitude.
3. The Danakil, or Afer—The coast of the Red Sea from Adel to Suakin.
Religion.—Paganism, Mahometanism. According to Dr. Beke, fragmentary Christianity among the Gallas.
Habits.—Chiefly pastoral. Partially mercantile.
Physical appearance.—Colour varying from a deep black to a brownish-yellow. Stature, tall; bodies, spare, wiry, and muscular; frontal profile vaulted; nose, often straight or even arched; lips, moderate; hair, often hanging over the neck in long twisted plaits.
It is the wilder tribes of the Ilmorma Gallas that have broken up the kingdom, and disturbed the ethnology of Abyssinia, both in respect to its Semitic populations, and the earlier and more aboriginal—