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Updated: June 13, 2025

I doubt not there are many who ignore the fact that in Eastern Africa, scarcely three hundred miles distant from Aden, there is a counterpart of ill-famed Timbuctoo in the Far West. The more adventurous Abyssinian travellers, Salt and Stuart, Krapf and Isenberg, Barker and Rochet, not to mention divers Roman Catholic Missioners, attempted Harar, but attempted it in vain.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - First Footsteps in East Africa