[101]. The Bette of the Arabs.
[102]. This account of Patta is valuable: we hear little of the place from later travellers.
[103]. Sarhang, or native boatswain.
[104]. Englishmen at the time were full of the fate of Mr Park, and they knew little of Africa, who expected the people of Patta to have heard of the Niger.
[105]. Probably meaning Abyssinia.
[106]. The Wasawahili, or coast tribes.
[107]. The Gallas or Ormas are negroids, not negroes. This will answer [Note 23], which compares the Gallas with the west coast ‘niggers.’
[108]. The mixture of blood is with the negro races of the interior, driven down as slaves, and with the Arabs and Persians, whose first emigration dates probably from prehistoric ages.
[109]. We can hardly give them a better character now.
[110]. During this run they passed the mouths of the Ozi Dana, Zana, or Pokomoni, and of the Adi, Sabaki, or Sabbak, rivers.