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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 414 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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JIBUTI (DJIBOUTI)

JIBUTI (DJIBOUTI) , the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

PORT

port and See also:

capital of See also:

French See also:

SOMALILAND

Somaliland, in 11° 35' N., 430 10' E. Jibuti is situated at the entrance to and on the See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

SHORE

shore of the Gulf of Tajura ?!tau* 15o m. S.W. of See also:

ADEN

Aden. The See also:

TOWN

town is built on a horseshoe-shaped See also:

peninsula partly consisting of mud flats, which are spanned by causeways. The chief buildings are the See also:

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor's See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace, customs-See also:

house, See also:

POST

post See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office, and the terminal station of the railway to See also:

ABYSSINIA (officially ETHIOPIA)

Abyssinia. The houses in the Europeanquarter are built of See also:

stone, are See also:

FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat-roofed and provided with verandas. There is a See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

WATER

water See also:

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply, See also:

DRAWN

drawn from a See also:

RESERVOIR

reservoir about 22 M. distant. The See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour is See also:

LAND

land-locked and capacious. Ocean steamers are able to enter it at all states of See also:

wind and See also:

TIDE (O. Eng. lid, cf. Ger. Zeit, time or season, connected with root of Sanskrit a-diti, endless)

tide. Adjoining the mainland is the native town, consisting mostly of roughly made wooden houses with well thatched See also:

ROOFS

roofs. In it is held a large See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market, chiefly for the disposal of live stock, camels, See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, &c. The port is a See also:

REGULAR

regular calling-See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place and also a coaling station for the steamers of the Messageries Maritimes, and there is a See also:

LOCAL

local service to Aden.

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Trade is confined to coaling passing See also:

SHIPS

ships and to importing goods for and exporting goods from southern Abyssinia via See also:

HARRAR (or HARAR)

Harrar, there being no local See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries. (For See also:

STATISTICS

statistics see SOMALILAND, FRENCH.) The inhabitants are of many races—Somali, Danakil, See also:

Gallas, Armenians, See also:

Jews, See also:

ARABS

Arabs, See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians, besides Greeks, Italians, French and other Europeans. The See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population, which in 1900 when the railway was See also:

BUILDING

building was about 15,000, had fallen in 1907 to some 5000 or 6000, including 300 Europeans. Jibuti was founded by the French in 1888 in consequence of its superiority to See also:

OBOK

Obok both in respect to harbour See also:

ACCOMMODATION (Lat. accommodare, to make fit, from ad, to, cum, with, and modus, measure)

accommodation and in nearness to Harrar. It has been the seat of the governor of the See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony since May 1896. See also:

Order is maintained by a purely native See also:

POLICE (Fr. police, government, civil administration, a police force, Gr. sroXumeia, constitution, condition of a state, roars, city, state)

police force. The port is not fortified.

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