A recent visitor to Massowah, in thf Ked Sea, asserts that it has a great future bofoi'i , it, as Nature has made 11 the chiii outlet for the trade of Abyssinia, besides which the prolit.\of the pearltrade in that sta are lining rapidly transferred from Jeddah (on the opposite coast) to MaSsowab. The town itself is situated on an island about a mile long and a quarter of a mile broad, which is connected with the mainland by means of a solid causeway of stone fully a niiloii) length. The roadstead is completely sheltered from slorniii by the Abd-el-Kader J'eninsula on the one aide, and by the promontory which is crowned by Mount Ghadom on the other. At the present timcMuKjwah contains 5000 inhabitant;;, tho majority of whom are traders from Italy or Greece, occupying substantial stone or coral lighncs, in striking contrast with the dirty mud hovels of the Arab population of the town,
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2474, 19 May 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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