CHAPTER III.
EASTERN AFRICA.
In the desert between the Nile and the Red Sea,
and among that range of mountains running parallel
with the coast, are Hadharebe, the Ababdeh, and the
Bishari, three very ancient tribes, the modern representatives
of the Ethiopians of Meroe. The language
of these people, their features, so different from the
Arabs, and the Guinea Negro, together with their architecture,
prove conclusively that they descended from
Ethiopia; the most numerous and powerful of these
tribes being the Bishari.
Leaving the shores of the Mediterranean, and passing south of Abyssinia, along the coast of Africa, and extending far into the interior over rich mountain-*plains, is found the seat of what are called the "Galla nations." They are nomadic tribes, vast in numbers, indefinable in their extent of territory, full of fire and energy, wealthy in flocks and herds, dark-skinned, woolly-haired, and thick-lipped.
Passing farther west into that vast region which lies between the Mountains of the Moon and the Great Desert, extending through Central Africa even to the
