EFFECTIYE OCCUPATION 



Moreover, it was hoped that if direct communication 

 could be opened between the settled parts of the 

 Protectorate and the rich cattle districts in the vicinity 

 of Moyale in southern Abyssinia a lucrative trade 

 would ensue. By degrees military outposts were 

 formed at Ngabotok, Kulal, Marsabit, Moyale, 

 Wajheir and Sarrenleh, and a great improvement 

 has been made, so that travelling has been rendered 

 perfectly safe, at any rate in the western portion. 

 This northern country is still a " closed district " ; 

 that is to say, that although conditions are satisfactory 

 and on the whole peaceful, it is considered inadvisable 

 as yet to throw it open to settlers and traders, and a 

 special permission from the authorities is necessary to 

 enable the traveller to enter it. This large stretch of 

 country is divided by a provisional line, drawn from 

 the junction of the Daua and Juba Rivers to the 

 Lorian Swamp and passing immediately to the east 

 of Eil Wak, into two portions known respectively as 

 the Northern Frontier District on the west and Juba- 

 land on the east. Jubaland is bounded on the east 

 by the Juba River, beyond which is Italian Somaliland, 

 on the south-east by the Indian Ocean, and on the 

 south by an imaginary line drawn from the Lorian 

 Swamp to the Bajun settlement of Kiunga on the 

 coast. To the south of this line is the province of 

 Tanaland. I have already mentioned the western 

 boundary of Jubaland, which I have reason to believe 

 will shortly be altered in order to include Wajheir. 



While no large expeditions have been engaged in 

 exploring Northern Jubaland, much good work has 

 been done there by officers in the King's African 

 Rifles, and by members of the administrative force 

 in the course of their travels. The late Lieutenant 



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