Somaliland Britisha 39 ) AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES made, are used as beasts of burden and also for milk ing. The breed is single-humped and probably Arabian in stock, but the animals are larger and finer than those of Arabia, and have developed a special faculty for hill-climbing. Even when laden they can use paths which in most countries would hardly be considered practicable for mules .

The forest resources of Sokotra, other than the gum producing trees already referred to, are not consider able. The commonest tree is the euphorbia, and there is one species of box whose timber is reported to be valuable. The woods consist mainly of closely -grow ing shrubs and bushes, through which small trees are scattered, the crop being most dense in the valleys.

Nothing is known of any minerals of commercial utility.

AUTHORITIES HISTORICAL A standard book on the Somaliland Protectorate is British Somaliland, by Dr. Drake- Brockman , London , 1912. For both Somaliland and Sokotra see The Historical Geography of the British Colonies, vol. i, 2nd ed . , Oxford , 1906, There is an exhaustive article on Sokotra in the Encyclopaedia Britannica , 11th ed ., in which authorities are given .

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> ECONOMIC FORBES, H. 0. (edited by) . Natural History of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri. Liverpool University, 1903. Nineteenth Century Magazine ). London. June , 1897. ( Scottish GeographicalMagazine. Vol . XIV. Edinburgh, 1898 .

MAP A map of the Somaliland Protectorate with Italian Somali land , (G.S.G.S. , No. 2924 ), on the scale of 1 : 3,000,000, is published by the War Office. Corrected to 1919.