Note 28 — CHAP. XLVII.

It is very remarkable and interesting that the date-palm, in all these countries as far as Bagírmi, goes by the Háusa name “debíno,” from which circumstance it is plain that it was first introduced into that part of Negroland. Even the Fúlbe of Sókoto have no other name for it, while those of Ádamáwa call it after the tree of the native date, viz. the addwa or Balanites Ægyptiaca. But the Sónghay and Mába or Wadáy languages have quite independent names for this palm.