In These Countries The Government Is In The Hands Of Foreigners, Who Had Invaded And Taken Possession Of Them, Leaving The Agricultural Aborigines To Till The Ground, Whilst The Junior Members Of The Usurping Clans Herded Cattle - Just As In Abyssinia, Or Wherever The Abyssinians Or Gallas Have Shown Themselves.

There a pastoral clan from the Asiatic side took the government of Abyssinia from its people and have ruled

Over them ever since, changing, by intermarriage with the Africans, the texture of their hair and colour to a certain extent, but still maintaining a high stamp of Asiatic feature, of which a market characteristic is a bridged instead of bridgeless nose.

It may be presumed that there once existed a foreign but compact government in Abyssinia, which, becoming great and powerful, sent out armies on all sides of it, especially to the south, south- east, and west, slave-hunting and devastating wherever they went, and in process of time becoming too great for one ruler to control. Junior members of the royal family then, pushing their fortunes, dismembered themselves from the parent stock, created separate governments, and, for reasons which cannot be traced, changed their names. In this manner we may suppose that the Gallas separated from the Abyssinians, and located themselves to the south of their native land.

Other Abyssinians, or possibly Gallas - it matters not which they were or what we call them - likewise detaching themselves, fought in the Somali country, subjugated that land, were defeated to a certain extent by the Arabs from the opposite continent, and tried their hands south as far as the Jub river, where they also left many of their numbers behind.

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