The Lo­rian dis­trict is pop­u­lated by the Ta­la­muga Ogaden So­mali, and the Bo­rana, yet thinly ow­ing to want of rain and the num­ber of places abound­ing in tsetse fly. In other re­spects it is sim­i­lar to the Af­madu dis­trict.

Of the tribes in Juba­land the So­mali are by far the most im­por­tant. In the whole of East Africa there are two branches of the So­mali, the Darud [Da­rood] and the Ishaak. The for­mer only is rep­re­sented in Juba­land. The Dirr and Haweyeh tribes, largely rep­re­sented in Ital­ian ter­ri­tory and slightly in Juba­land, though called So­mali are re­ally the abo­rig­ines of the Beni­dir coast, and are in no way co-tribal with the So­mali, with whom they sel­dom in­ter­marry.

The So­mali re­port that about 700 years ago an Arab sheik, Is­mail Ju­berti by name, hav­ing been out­lawed, fled from his coun­try in a dhow. He landed on the Beni­dir coast near Ho­bia (or Ob­bia), but the Haweyeh, who then lived in the neigh­bour­hood, re­fused him hos­pi­tal­ity, so even­tu­ally he joined the Dirr tribe. From this tribe he mar­ried a wife by whom he had five sons. From one of these, named Darud [Da­rood] Ju­berti, the Darud So­mali are de­scended. The Mare­han So­mali claim to be de­scended from Essa [Sade], a son of the above-named Darud Ju­berti; while the Herti [Harti] and Ogaden So­mali claim de­scent from Kablalla Darud, an­other of his sons.

The Mare­han, Ogaden, and Herti So­mali are all strongly rep­re­sented in Juba­land.

The Mare­han tribe oc­cupy the north-east part in the neigh­bour­hood of Seren­leh and Dolo. From Ital­ian ter­ri­tory they have em­i­grated into Juba­land dur­ing the last twenty years, and are still in­clined to be tur­bu­lent. They are pos­ses­sors of large num­bers of camels, and of horses also in lesser num­ber, but, un­like the Ogaden, they do not rear cat­tle ex­ten­sively. Prob­a­bly their num­bers do not ex­ceed 5000.

The Herti So­mali oc­cupy the coast and ex­tend in­land as far as the Deshek Wama. Of the three sub-tribes of the Herti, the Mid­jertein [Ma­jeer­teen] are the most nu­mer­ous in Juba­land, while the Wasen­geleh are but few in num­ber and the Dol­ba­hanta still re­main to the east of the Juba. The Herti do busi­ness as traders as well as rear cat­tle. Their num­bers are about 3000.