The Native Races of East Africa #251276

Many centuries ago, but at what time in the world's history it is impossible to say, a tall, dark skinned people named Hamites entered Africa from the direction of Arabia, and so fierce were these invaders that they were able to push before them the negroes, who retreated south and west. These fighting Hamites are now represented by the Somali, Danakil, and Galla who inhabit the Horn of Africa,' 'where they subsist chiefly by cattle rearing that is to say, they are a pastoral people, who move from one well and piece of grass land to another, driving before them large herds of sheep, goats, camels, and perhaps a few horses.