First footsteps in East Africa/ An Exploration of Harar ....by Richard Burton

Sir Richard Burton:

 ''First footsteps in East Africa!''

The Somali spear is a form of the Cape Assegai. A long, thin, pliant and knotty shaft of the Dibi, Diktab, and Makari trees, is dried, polished, and greased with rancid butter: it is generally of a dull yellow colour, and sometimes bound, as in Arabia, with brass wire for ornament.