[6] The plume was dark, chequered with white, but the bird was so wild that no specimen could be procured.
[7] The Arabs apply this term to tea.
[8] The Dayyib of the Somal, and the Sinaubar of the Arabs; its line of growth is hereabouts an altitude of 5000 feet.
[9] Travellers in Central Africa describe exactly similar buildings, bell- shaped huts, the materials of which are stakes, clay and reed, conical at the top, and looking like well-thatched corn-stacks.
[10] Amongst the Fellatahs of Western Africa, only the royal huts are surmounted by the ostrich's egg.
[11] These platforms are found even amongst the races inhabiting the regions watered by the Niger.
[12] Charred sticks about six feet long and curved at the handle.
[13] Equally simple are the other implements. The plough, which in Eastern Africa has passed the limits of Egypt, is still the crooked tree of all primitive people, drawn by oxen; and the hoe is a wooden blade inserted into a knobbed handle.
[14] It is afterwards stored in deep dry holes, which are carefully covered to keep out rats and insects; thus the grain is preserved undamaged for three or four years.
[15] This word is applied to the cultivated districts, the granaries of Somali land.