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"Americans in the Egyptian Army" by Pierre Crabites, a book of comprehensive reports of the activities of the American officers in the Khedivial Army. Khedive Ismail had asked for protection from the United States. He argued, "If Americans were sufficiently powerful to expel France from Mexico, they were the men whom he needed to give driving power to his arms." in order to extend his empire. In pages 228-38.

The author summarizes GRAVES' Reconnaisance of Cape Guardafui. "He Felt that all men of colour are alike, whether they come from Somaliland or Augusta, Georgia. His object in writing the appendix was probably to prove to his New England chief that the latter took the negro races too seriously and attributed to them sins which were no theirs. But, be all this as it may, the Annapolis man pointed out to the West Pointer that the Somalis are divided into four great tribes. The names they bear are : the Mijjertains, the Oursangallis, (Warsangeli), the and the Isaacs, respectively. The Mijjertains are the most numerous and the most savage.....................The Mijjertain Somalis claim descent from a ferocious and fanatical Arab named Darot, who was expelled from his own country aboud A.D 700. He married Dumbara, daughter of Dogolla and sister of King Durr. She was a pure-blooded negress. The great grandson of this union was Harti, who became chief of the tribe. He had a son named Mijjertain, who gave his name to the race. Harti also had a nephew called Oursangalli, who did not get alongwith Mijjertain, broke away from the parent stock and became the head of the Oursangallis. The other tribal names were acquired more or less the same."

Here you have a table, which is similar to what you have already seen and known from every secessionist website. However, to aid your understanding, i will explain the numbers in the table in mathematical terms how the high percentage of Isaaq in comparison to Daarood came to be, and at the footnote of the page, you will find a small statement that disqualifies that population ratio in British Somaliland.  We need some elementary Statistics to figure that out.  In a nutshel, What we have in the table is three national categories: Somalia(Italian), British Somaliland, and Somali Republic. The Somali Republic was formed out of the two colonies.Aight. Since the Somalis in the south or Somalia are considered to be larger than the north, what you have to do is multiply the ratio on the left by 2 and add any ratio that is on the right(British Somaliland), then divide by 3. The reason you divide them by three is to average out. One clan might NOT be represented, population wise, in the south like Isaaq, and in the north like Hawiye, so simply, multiply 2 by the # on the left even if it is 0 and add back the number on the right--British Somaliland, then divide by 3 , to arrive at the ratio on the far right, which is the SOMALI REPUBLIC. ex, Southern Daarood constitute 22% in Somalia a.k.a Italian Somalia, so 22 x 2 = 44 + 19(Darod in the North) = 63 . Then 63/3 = 21. And so and so on.    The current ratio you see today is 20 and 25 for the both Hawiye and Daarod respectively, but it was 21 and 24, so one 1 point was taken from Daarod and added to Hawiye due to probably external assessment.