Note 269 — Chapter IX
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Alŭfá, probably a corruption of Arif, is the Egba word for a Mullah, a Moslem theologian. Imále in Egba, and Málenun in Ffon, both probably corrupted from Muallim, means the common Moslem. Hence some of our older authors brought the Malays to Dahome.— See History, p. 48, note signed “J.F.”