Berbera
a seaport of British Somaliland, eastern Africa, with a good harbor, on a bay of the Gulf of Aden.
It was conquered by Egypt in 1875, but in July, 1884, the British Government took possession of it, and a small Indian force is now stationed here. It is the scene of a large annual fair, which brings over 30,000 people together from all quarters in the East. Coffee, grains, ghee, g ostrich feathers, etc., are brought hither ghee, gold dust, ivory, gums, cattle, from the interior, and exchanged for cotton, rice, iron, Indian piece goods, etc.