TBANSACTIONS OF THE SECTIONS. 
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Frequent evidence of the abundance of lobsters is pmduced, 
liem might be rendered a valuable source of wealth and employment to 
In addition to the want of adequate and convenient shelter for the boats, the 
ileeoceof efficient means forcuring the fish has also been agreat 
lenliipment of the fisheries, and to adequate advantage being taken y P P 
Afsapniy of food from that source. , . _ ^r,A 
Govermnent has lately granted considerable sums towards the firs j ' 
ther have a^ erected model curing establiahments on different parts of t e » 
i« for improvement in the skill and exertions of the fishermen themselves, wo in^t 
loo* to the well-directed efforts of persons possesaing local influence and huow 
who m many instances doubtless have it in their power materially to aasis e • 
hdiitauts of the coast in procuring efficient boats and gear, and to induce the 
fostt the occupation of fishing with energy and industry. 
ETHNOLOGY. 
Ontlie Origin of the Gallas. By C- T. Beke, Pli.D., F.B.G.S. 
Js lie annals of Abesainia it is recorded, that towards the beginning of the six¬ 
teenth centiuy that countrv- was invaded by numerous hordes of a wdd and war 
P»ple. The year 1537 is mentioned as the precise date of their firat ^PP®““'"=, . 
il'e kingdom of Bali, the Bouth-eastemmosl province of the empire . In Aoessi i 
“'ll tlieneighbouring countries, these people arc called 6’t»//as ; and by this na y 
also known tu Kuropeaus. , , . i*. • r.ii,.,,. Hnl- 
As tegatds the sigriificaaon of the nnxno Alalia, the Jesuit historian T./, 
lieiat Tellezt derives it from the Hebrew a»‘l tl'e Greek yuXa, mtlk, buause 
ftesaya) they were originally a white people, namely a colony of the 
"fiCT the eaniivity and dUpaiVion settled in Knsteni Africa between the " 
‘nJ Bali. Ill Shoa the name is said to bo taken from the river Gala in ^, 
P^vince in the south-west of Shoa. on the banks of wlucl. river a great Battle la s 
tobivo been fought between them and the Abesoimans. M, d Abbudie relatesj ^ 
“wAhessiniaii Moslems give the following uuamt c^'ino bgy-of tbe ^ 
Summoned by Mohammed's messenger to adopt IsUm, the first cbie i 
Wioo $aid no—in Arabic ^ kdl (or gdl) 16. The prophet answered, “ 1 hen le 
‘^wi'ery name imply their dental of the faith.” But these laucifiil attempts to ex- 
'• name are not entitled to much consideration. 
1 am not nir« of its being an ascertained fact that " Gallo is really a ■ 
‘nation, TheGalks themselves twually adopt the proud title of ^ » 
and they call their language Afan Orma, "the mouth 
Al the lime of the f.wl inroads of the Gaiks into Abowima. 
had been seiisihly weakened by the invasion ol a 
^nhe), the celebrated Mohammedan king of Adel. . in tbe country. 
Jjfiht Tcaistonce to the new invaders, who soon acquired a record of^a 
then the history of Abesainia has consisted of hdk mo latter, though 
^tvwiftu of conflicts between the natives and the Gall^, m wU 
2;“ «d at times, have gone on advancing and - a Dimot, G6djam, 
g^honsoftheempirc. !At the present day, the provinces of J 
^KA'ngot, A^ha and BiWilder (not >« 
* kidnlf, lUsi. /'EiUiop. Uh. 1. nip. XV. ftruce, Traick edit-J.vol.iii.p. -37 e 2 
I ?'*'• Bthiopk A Aha, lib. 1. cap. sxUi. p- «0- „,,-i,ori,e„,andalmostt'ei'6«t'«. 
* Aihen«„m. No, 7Sl, of Oct. .It, 1841. Tlic same relation » J. ^„y aulbority being 
» Hsrru'j HighUi.a, of ^Ethiopia (2nd edit.), 'ol. m. V - «! hut wiinouc j 
*l»ted. 
1847. 
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