Note 189 — LEMLEM.

It may be naturally presumed that the slave market, whence the designation first proceeded, was that of Ghánah, and therefore that its meaning should be found in the language of Tomboktú or territory of Ghánah. Now in that language lemlem signifies to eat (Caillié, tom. III. p. 311); and if the Kissúr be as simple in its construction as the Mandingo, it also signifies an eater or cannibal. Thus from domo, to eat, in Mandingo, comes the verbal noun domo, in the plural domolu, eaters—not man-eaters, as it is translated by Park (First Journey, p. 217), who writes dummulo—the name with which the Bambarans stigmatize their neighbours the Maniana.