Note 219 — Chapter VIII
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M. Wallon erroneously ranks the Mingan after the Meu. He makes the same mistake in saying that the Gau and the Po-su are equal. Mr. Duncan (p. 231) casually alludes to the “Me-gah, the King’s principal jailer,” and as wrongly tells us “the higher officers of the household are allowed to adopt their official titles as their family names (N.B., there is none), Mayho (for “the Meu”) being in the Dahoman language, Prime Minister.”