"Somali" Quotes from Famous Books
... declared that he well knew the sites of the ruined settlements El-Khulasah and El-Zibayyib. After walking half an hour we turned eastward into a feeder of the Surr, the Wady el-Khulasah, whose aspect charmed me: this drain of the inner Jedayl block was the replica of a Fiumara in Somali-land, a broad tree-dotted flat of golden sand, bordered on either side by an emerald avenue of dense Mimosas, forming line under the green-stone hills to the right, and the red-stone heights to the left. The interior, we again remarked, is evidently ... — The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... morning for the Somali Country, in Abyssinia, to shoot rhinoceros, and his interest in matrimony was in consequence ... — Cinderella - And Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis |