Note 14 — Chapter I

Bosman (A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea, translated into English, 1705) seems to have led the way, and others have repeated him. “The island of Fernando Po is inhabited by a savage and cruel sort of people, which he that deals with ought not to trust. I neither can nor will say more of them.” It is hard to discover whence was derived the word Adiyah or Eediyah, which all writers have copied from the Niger Expedition of Messrs. Allen and Thompson, and have applied to the Bubé race. The fact is, the Fernandian, as might be expected, has no national name, for “adiyah” is probably derived from adios, arios, aros, the salutation borrowed from the old Spanish colony long extinct. Bubé (not “bubi,” or “booby,”) means, not “friend,” but “man,” a frequent address as the Castilian hombre, and thus assumed by strangers as the popular appellation. In “High Bubé,” “adyah” means “the moon,” which in the vulgar is “ballepo.”