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Before Partition

9 A finely carved door-frame in Zanzibar style in Mogadishu.

10 A view of Mogadishu as it appeared to the French explorer Charles Guillain in 1847 (from a print in the album illustrating Guillain’s voyages). Mogadishu’s oldest mosque bears an inscription dated A.D. 1238, while the city’s earliest funeral inscription goes back to the eighth century.

11 Camel-operated press used for extracting sesame oil at Mogadishu in 1847 (from the album of Guillain).

12 A view of the town of Geledi (Afgoi) on the Shebelle River as it appeared at the time of Guillain’s visit in 1847 (from Guillain’s album). The Geledi Sultan was the most powerful Somali chief on the Benadir coast in the nineteenth century.

13 Sir Richard Burton, the most distinguished explorer to travel in Somaliland (from the portrait by Lord Leighton, 1876, in the National Portrait Gallery, London). Burton’s brilliant record of his remarkable journey from Zeila to Harar – the ‘Timbuctu of East Africa’, as he described it – in 1854 is the most valuable early source on northern Somali history and culture.