*[[ 2. Physical characters of the Danhkil.
It appears from the description of the Danakil that they
greatly resemble the Sumhli'. ’ Mr. Salt says, that they have
■well-formed features. The dress of the men consists of pieces
of cloth wrapped-round their „ bodies; their hair, which is
crisp, is curiously dressed but, frizzled, powdered with brown
dust, and cqvered with grease in a way similar to that which
is practised by the Hazorta and other tribes on the coast.
The women have a closer dress : 'their hair is plaited in small
ringlets, and their arms and legs adorned with bracelets of
ivory and silver. The Danakil are a pastoral people,, and
practice'put little agriculture. Like, other barbarians the
Danhkil men pass their time ip idleness, and leave their
household labour to their females. They construct their
tombs in rude pyramids.: The Danakil, as well as the Adaiel
and Sumaii, hatfe a superstitious abhorrence of eating fowls,
which led Mr, Salt to suspect that all these;tribes,ajre descended
from the Egyptians.
5[ 3. People of Hurrur.
Hurrur is a country of considerable extent to the eastward
of Adaiel, and between Efat in the southern extremity of
Abyssinia and the Indian Ocean. It is now entirely surrounded
by tribes of Galla. Mr. Salt has givfen a vocabulary
of the language of Hurrur, which contains a great, number
of Arabic, and some Gheez words. The people of Hurrur are
probably a tribe of Abyssinians mixed with the natives of
Adaiel, who are of the race of Danakil.
S ectio n III.— Of the Shmali, or Somauli.
To the southward of Adaiel and the country occupied by
the Danhkil nation and. to the eastward of'the Galla, an extensive
maritime region is inhabited by the Somauli, a people
of very different habits and moral character from the Galla,
whose language and physical peculiarities give reasons for