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23-528: According to Augustus Henry Keane , Maydh represents an early center of dispersal of the Somali people . National genealogies collected by the scholars Cox and Abud assert that many clan patriarchs are buried in or nearby the town. The city of Maydh was home to Sheikh Isaaq ibn Ahmed Al Hashimi ( Sheekh Isaxaaq ), who moved to Somaliland from the Arabian Peninsula in the 12th or 13th century CE. He

46-442: A lot of frankincense in the mountains south of Maydh. Arab and Banyan merchants would visit the port before continuing on to the western Somali coast. Maydh was the preeminent export point for large hides in eastern British Somaliland and came second in the total quantity of skins exported after Heis with over 15,000 being shipped out. The town had dialogue with Berbera with a large amount of cross trade occurring usually by dhow and

69-606: A part in the move of the Transvaal Native Affairs Society towards a segregationist position. He was known for his sympathies displayed in The Boer States (1900), in which he attributed the long-term issue behind the Boer Wars to the attitude of Lord Glenelg in the 1830s. The stance taken by Keane, who has been described as a "virulent racist", was conveyed in person when he addressed

92-528: A process which would help shed further light on the local history of the region and facilitate their preservation for posterity. In the Futuh Al-Habesh, the chronicler Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir ʻArabfaqīh notes that the Harti, who fought on the left flank of Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi 's army, were known as the people of Mait; a people not given to yielding. Francisco Álvares visited

115-447: Is considered to be the founding father of the large Somali Isaaq clan family that predominantly inhabits Somaliland , as well as parts of Djibouti and Ethiopia . Sheikh Isaaq's domed tomb is also located here. According to tradition, the old town was built by Sheikh Ishaaq and his followers upon earlier foundations. Legendary 15th century Arab explorer Ahmad ibn Mājid wrote of Maydh and several other notable landmarks and ports of

138-773: Is now mostly fishing town and is exclusively settled by the Jibril Aden Arale sub division of the Habar Yoonis Garxajis of the Isaaq clan. In 2020 the British , Dutch and Norwegian missions announced the start of a jetty in Maydh to bolster economic activity and construction is in progress. Augustus Henry Keane Augustus Henry Keane (1833–1912) was an Irish Roman Catholic journalist and linguist, known for his ethnological writings. He

161-652: The Hartley Institute, Southampton ; a chair of Hindustani was created for him at University College, London , in 1883, but he left it in 1885. He then spent a period lecturing on ethnology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia . Keane belonged to the "philological" group of British linguists, with Richard Garnett , Thomas Hewitt Key , Isaac Taylor , John Horne Tooke and Hensleigh Wedgwood . He began attending meetings of

184-517: The Governor saw that they did not come, he ordered fifty musketeers and cross-bowmen to try to capture some of the people of the country so that he might have some knowledge of what people they were and of what nation. And after making a circuit of about six miles these men returned and said they had not been able to find anyone. And that they had found where they used to make fire and hollows and places where they sought for water to drink, and because of

207-784: The Transvaal Native Affairs Society in September 1909. He cited Robert Wilson Shufeldt of Virginia, author of The Negro a Menace to American Civilization (1907), aiding the Bell faction against the moderates around Howard Pim. He contributed ethnological appendices to the volumes of Edward Stanford 's Compendium of Geography and Travel , which was based on Friedrich von Hellwald 's Die Erde und ihre Völker . An English edition of La Nouvelle Géographic universelle, la terre et les hommes , 19 vols. (1875—94) of Elisée Reclus appeared as The Earth and Its Inhabitants

230-734: The a Royal Anthropological Institute in 1879, read papers there, and became a Fellow, serving as vice-president. He was granted a Civil List pension in 1897. Keane was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society . Keane's racial theories were published first in Nature in 1879–81. He affirmed the specific unity of human beings in his 1896 text Ethnology , even if his views had some other implications. He produced racial typologies, in his expository writings; they were more systematic than those of John George Wood and Robert Brown , and were intended for rote learning. Keane

253-454: The city who provided a description below of his experience: We met at a place called Meti, which is well sited; it might be of the size of fifty or sixty hearths; it has two mosques, and they are not good ones, but they have many large burial grounds. The people of this place all fled; and they also have there a big school in which they teach the children, because there were inkpots and boards on which they wrote. There were also three old women in

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276-866: The first volumes were edited by Ernest George Ravenstein , the rest by Keane. With Sir Stanley Reed he edited Bradshaw's Through Routes to the Chief Cities of the World (1907). A prolific author, Keane wrote encyclopedia articles, in particular for the Encyclopædia Britannica . His articles in the 9th edition (1875–89) included "Negro", which included details of the racial theory of Filippo Manetta ., as well as articles on "Malay Peninsula", "Mexico (Republic of Mexico)", "Mexico (City of Mexico)", "Sudan" and "Yoruba. He also wrote magazine articles and textbooks; he contributed 800 entries to Cassell's Storehouse of General Information . In 1905 he

299-495: The great mountains they were in hiding; and it was impossible to find them. In this place there were only two wells and little water; the Governor was displeased at this as we were in great need of water. They began to dig in the ground to see if they could find water, and God willed that we should find so much and so good that they made about forty holes, from which they filled in three days more than 1000 casks of water; and so we were replenished with water and so it showed that this

322-497: The largest commodity being livestock. Murray in his book The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society notes that many men from the western Isaaq clans would travel to Maydh to spend the last years of their lives in hopes of being buried near Sheikh Ishaaq. The book states: The stranger is at once struck with the magnitude of the burial-ground at Meyet, which extends for fully a mile each way. Attachment to

345-419: The memory of their forefather Isaakh yet induces many aged men of the western tribes to pass the close of their lives at Meyet, in order that their tombs may be found near that of their chief, and this will account for the unusual size of this cemetery. Many of the graves have head-stones of madrepore, on which is cut in relief the name of the tenant below, and of these many are to be found 250 years old. The town

368-725: The nationalist Patrick Lavelle , who used its pages to attack Paul Cullen . John Murdoch , the Vicar Apostolic of the Western District was another particular target, the background being the increasing number of Irish Catholic priests in Scotland, and an increasing Irish immigrant population. Keane and McCorry found themselves in court proceedings. The policy of the Glasgow Free Press under Keane and then McCorry had only short-term direct effects, and

391-520: The northern Somali coast, including Berbera , the Sa'ad ad-Din islands (aka the Zeila Archipelago near Zeila), Alula , Ruguda , Heis , El-Darad and El-Sheikh . Somaliland in general is home to numerous such archaeological sites , with similar edifices found at Haylaan , Qa’ableh , Qombo'ul , Gelweita and El Ayo . However, many of these old structures have yet to be properly explored,

414-606: The paper was shut down after the intervention by Cardinal Manning towards the end of the 1860s; but the divisions it revealed have been taken as important in the move towards restoring the Scottish Catholic hierarchy , which occurred in 1878. Keane may have drifted from the Catholic faith in later life. He studied in Germany and taught at Hameln ; and became a linguist. He taught languages including Hindustani at

437-541: The place, two cripples and one blind. They did not understand their language. At night they also captured a young woman with a baby, near a mountain; the Governor ordered that cotton cloths should be given to them to clothe them in their fashion, and that they should go away to the people of the place. And he told them to tell them to come for he would ensure their safety; and he wanted peace with them; and those who should come and return boldly he would treat very kindly. They were not willing to believe or trust him. And so when

460-530: The whole time that the supply of water was being taken on, we were on land without having any alarm. Portuguese navigator Duarte Barbosa described the Somali coast and noted Met (Maydh) as a town with an abundance of meat but little trade. This would indicate that Maydh was likely a pilgrimage site where travelers would come to pray. Maydh shares many similarities with nearby Heis the Habr Yunis attained

483-461: Was a port for ships. And at this time some little ships and frigates were there. There are also on the shore great bones of fish, which seem to be of whales or something like them; and a great quantity of them. On our departure they took what they needed for firewood from the houses and mosques, and what was not needed they burnt together with the houses, ships and frigates. In this place there is nothing but stere, and skins of goats and buffaloes. During

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506-766: Was born in Cork , Ireland . He was educated in Cork, Dublin and Jersey , and graduated at the Roman Catholic College, Dublin . Keane was editor of the Glasgow Free Press from 1862. He and his deputy Peter McCorry turned the first Scottish Catholic newspaper into a campaigning sheet, setting the Irish priests against the Scottish priests, and in particular the vicars-apostolic. The paper supported

529-470: Was out of step with the anthropology of the time, preferring linguistic data to that of physical anthropology and came to occupy a marginal position in the emerging scientific discipline. On the other hand, his efforts at popularising anthropology were praised by Sir Harry Johnston . Keane's views were invoked by F. W. Bell in South Africa from 1908, with those of Robert Bennett Bean , and played

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