Note 134 — IBN BAṬÚṬAH’S JOURNEY.
Reading edition
Clapperton’s Second Journey, pp. 47, 52, 72. The persons prostrating themselves before the King of Yariba were contemptuously called “Sandeaters,” by Clapperton’s Houssa servant; so little are the usages of Ghánah now known in the neighbourhood of Kanó! Lander (Expedition to the Niger, I. p. 172), describing these ceremonies, names the king Mansolah, of which the Mandingo title Mansá may possibly be a part.