[311]Vide infra, [Chap. XII.]
[312]Cf. Kanem-bu = the people of Kanem.
[313]Keane: Man, Past and Present (new edition), p. 473.
[314]Ptolemy, IV., sec. 3, 6. An emendation making the word read “the people of Cidamus” (Ghadames) is more tempting. Cf. Bates, op. cit., p. 63.
[315]Leo, op. cit., III. 801.
[316]Minutilli, Tripolitania, p. 413, and in El Bekri passim.
[317]Leo, loc. cit.
[318]In Byzantine times B and V were often interchanged. Cf. Βάνδιλοι for Vandal, apud Justinian.
[319]Ibn Khaldun, Book I. p. 234.
[320]Unity, that is, in so far as all the non-Arab Libyans have been called Berbers and speak the same language.