Note 405 — VII

[Landeroin remarks as follows: ‘The principal population of the Chad islands is generally designated under the name of Budduma, a nickname given them by their neighbours, the Kanuri, from ‘budu’ (= grass) and ‘-ma’ (= belonging to). But the Buddumas’ own name for themselves is ‘Yedina’, the etymology of which is uncertain. It may be derived from Yedi, a town on the south-west bank of Chad, whose original inhabitants, a branch of the Sos, may have taken refuge in the islands from the power of Bornu; or it may be derived from the Kanuri word Gedi, meaning East. . . . Some people say that Yedina was the name of the Kanembu tribe, to which Bulu, the mythical ancestor of the Budduma, belonged.’]