1. Bahawiyah, the race which supplies the Gerads. 2. Abu Tunis (divided into ten septs). 3. Rer Ibrahim (similarly divided). 4. Jibril. 5. Bakasiyya. 6. Rer Muhmud. 7. Musa Dar. 8. Rer Auro. 9. Rer Walembo. 10. Rer Khalid.
[26] I do not describe these people, the task having already been performed by many abler pens than mine.
[27] They are divided into the Bah Ambaro (the chief's family) and the Shaykhashed.
[28] The only specimen of stunted humanity seen by me in the Somali country. He was about eighteen years old, and looked ten.
[29] At first I thought of writing it in Arabic; but having no seal, a sine qua non in an Eastern letter, and reflecting upon the consequences of detection or even suspicion, it appeared more politic to come boldly forward as a European.
[30] It belongs, I was informed, to two clans of Gallas, who year by year in turn monopolise the profits.
[31] Of this tree are made the substantial doors, the basins and the porringers of Harar.
[32] The Webbe Shebayli or Haines River.
[33] This scarecrow is probably a talisman. In the Saharah, according to Richardson, the skull of an ass averts the evil eye from gardens.
[34] The following is a table of our stations, directions, and distances:—