Note 64 — APPENDIX.

The name is written in Arabic in very different ways, the MS. account of the expeditions of Edrís sometimes having the form معوا at others ماوا; but the real indigenous form seems to be Mʿawó, a name exactly similar to Gʿawó, that of the capital of the Sónghay empire, and Yʿawó, the residence of the Bulála princes. It is not improbable that by corruption the name Mátán, which by Ebn Sʿaíd and Abú ’l Fedá (p. 162.) is given to a well-known place in Kánem, has originated in the name of Mʿawó, although they place it close on the shore of the Tsád (bahíret Kúrí), and north from Njímiye.