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Dana (RICHARD HENRY JR an American)

RICHARD HENRY, JR., an American lawyer and author; born in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 1, 1815. He was perhaps best known as a writer through his book "Two Years Before the Mast," in which he described his voyage to California. He contributed to various papers and magazines and wrote some other books. He studied law under Judge Story and Professor Greenleaf, and was admitted to the bar in 1840. He died in Rome, Italy, Jan. 6, 1882.

DANAKIL (dä-nä-kēl'), (singular Dankali), the Arabic and now general name for the numerous nomad and fisher tribes inhabiting the coast of N. E.

Africa, from Massowah S. to Tajurrah Bay, and from there S. W. to Shoa. They belong to the Ethiopic Hamites, and are well built and slender, with features indicating an intermixture of Arab blood. In a country of waterless plains, they are generally nomads, living partly by caravan traffic and the slave-trade, but mostly on the milk of their flocks.