Berberah

Berberah, a seaport of Somali, Eastern Africa, with a good harbour, on a bay of the Gulf of Aden. It was conquered by Egypt in 1875, but in July 1884 the British government took possession of it, and a small Indian force is now stationed here. It is the scene of a large annual fair, which brings over 30,000 people together from all quarters in the East. Coffee, grains, ghee, gold-dust, ivory, gums, cattle, ostrich-feathers, &c. are brought hither from the interior, and exchanged for cotton, rice, iron, Indian piece-goods, &c.