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Updated: May 29, 2025

After a mile's march from Jannah Siri, we crossed a ridge of rising ground, and suddenly, as though by magic, the scene shifted. Before us lay a little Alp; the second step of the Ethiopian Highland. Around were high and jagged hills, their sides black with the Saj and Somali pine , and their upper brows veiled with a thin growth of cactus.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - First Footsteps in East Africa