For the last few weeks, the Parisians have been able to see at the Jardin d'Acclimatation a most curious ethnographic exhibition: it is a caravan made up of twenty-six Somalis, men, women and children. Thanks to the well-known amiability of M. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, we have been able to examine closely and in detail those samples of a human race which one does not often have occasion to owe to Paris. The description, which we here give, is drawn up according to the invariable plan which we have fixed for our ethnographic descriptions.
Definition of a caravan
a group of people, especially traders or pilgrims, traveling together across a desert in Asia or North Africa.