Berbera

trying to make it on its own.

It has a port, Berbera, which is very strategically located.

Strategically located on the Red Sea.

No, on the Indian Ocean, but right near Bab-el-Mandeb.

It just joined up with Somalia.

But I visited Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland.

I visited Berbera, the port.

Hargeisa, that's the name of the capital?

The other point at which the giraffe country is still accessible to European hunters or naturalists is Somaliland and the unknown Horn of Africa.

This district is so far accessible that parties of English sportsmen yearly penetrated from Berbera, making Aden their starting point from British territory.

But from the point of view of those who would delay as long as possible the extermination of the large game of Africa, the Dervish Empire is not altogether matter for regret.

No doubt the Arabs will still kill giraffes to make their shields from the hides, as they have done for centuries.

Circuses and private menageries are competing with the zoological gardens and scientific societies for rare and interesting animals, and the demand for America is far greater than for the continent of Europe.

After five or six years of neglect, there is such a boom in the wild beast trade as is hardly remembered.

Until the expeditions which Hagenbeck and others have dispatched into Central Africa via Berbera and into Borneo and the west coast of Africa return, there is little to fall back upon but the average supply which arrives without system and in chance ships.

A single purchase by an agent from the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens included a leopard, a hyena, a pair of cheetahs, a Bornean bear, antelopes, emus, and other birds.