[16] "The huge raven with gibbous or inflated beak and white nape," writes Mr. Blyth, "is the corvus crassirostris of Ruppell, and, together with a nearly similar Cape species, is referred to the genus Corvultur of Leason."
[17] In these hills it is said sometimes to freeze; I never saw ice.
[18] It is a string of little silver bells and other ornaments made by the Arabs at Berberah.
[19] Harari, Somali and Galla, besides Arabic, and other more civilized dialects.
[20] The Negroes of Senegal and the Hottentots use wooden mortars. At Natal and amongst the Amazulu Kafirs, the work is done with slabs and rollers like those described above.
[21] In the Eastern World this well-known fermentation is generally called "Buzab," whence the old German word "busen" and our "booze." The addition of a dose of garlic converts it into an emetic.
[22] The Somal will not kill these plundering brutes, like the Western Africans believing them to be enchanted men.
[23] Some years ago Adan plundered one of Sharmarkay's caravans; repenting the action, he offered in marriage a daughter, who, however, died before nuptials.
[24] Gisti is a "princess" in Harari, equivalent to the Somali Geradah.
[25] They are, however, divided into clans, of which the following are the principal:—