We saw that the Phenicians about the year 990 B.C. went by ship from Elath past South Arabia to the somali coast, and reached Ophir, i.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
He had got his marching orders and was to sail in the somali from Southampton.
"Jan and Her Job"
L. Allen Harker
Such is Prince, or Seyd Burghash, Sultan of Zanzibar and Pemba, and the East coast of Africa, from somali Land to the Mozambique, as he appeared to me.
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley