Word: somaliland
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...commission in a crack regiment. Young Richard had to be content with the native army of the East India Company. But the routine of army life soon bored him; he was always putting in for risky assignments: investigations in disguise among the natives, a journey to Harrar in Somaliland, whence no white man had ever returned; searching for the source of the Nile (his companion Speke got the credit for discovering Victoria Nyanza, but Burton led the expedition). He made the pilgrimage to Mecca in disguise, went to Salt Lake City in the reign of Brigham Young, made an engineering...
Briskly, and yet with due reverence, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy came unto Jerusalem last fortnight. The pilgrimage was made to top off an East African tour which His Royal Highness has just made through Italian Somaliland. Afric suns have burned him to a deep-toned brown...
...what attitude Britain will take in the event that Italy backs Spain's claim to Tangier (TIME, Aug. 23); 2) the progress of Italo-British pressure upon the Government of Abyssinia to grant British concessions at the headwaters of the Nile, and Italian concessions in Abyssinia near Italian Somaliland (TIME, Aug. 9); 3) the problems of Italo-British relationship engendered by Premier Mussolini's intrigues to form a pro-Italian bloc of nations in the Balkans...
...mixed," "mongrel") well describes this people who shade in different parts of the Empire from white through reddish-brown to ebony, and from Christianity to Mohammedanism. To the curious traveler's eye, Abyssinia presents a rural scene, picturesquely set off by civic stenches. Camels jog up to French Somaliland with gum and ostrich feathers which are bartered there for cheap Occidental jewelry and clothing or for rock salt, lumps of which pass current as money in the interior, as do cartridges. The Empress and a few nobles enjoy the exotic luxury of corrugated iron roofs upon their "palaces...
...Ultimate purpose: to connect the Italian colonies of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland by a trans-Abyssinian railway tapping much fertile country which might thus be brought under Italian dominance. fEventual design: to construct certain dams and waterworks among the Abyssinian headwaters of the Nile with intent to foster cotton growing in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The British dams would inundate numerous shrines held sacred by certain Abyssinian religious cults...