Note 180 — Chapter VIII

Maize, called muhindi, i.e. Indian or Hindostan corn, in East Africa, is here called yangan or agbado, i.e. agba odo, ‘what is beaten in the mortar.’ It is said to have been brought from the eastward, beyond the Niger, by a yellow monkey—the Oibo, or white man, according to the boys, is the ‘old baboon,’—which tends to show that it is not a native of the land. We cannot however as yet answer the question whether maize and the arachis be African or purely American growths.