Owing to a postal strike in France, the article by Yves Person, ‘Dauma et Danhome’, Journal of African History, vol. xv, no. 4, 547–61, was published without the author having an opportunity to correct the proofs. This led to a number of mis-prints, and also to the author's concluding observations being incorrectly printed as the Summary of the article. The Editors regret these errors and would like to express their apologies to Prof. Person.

Readers are asked to note the following detailed corrections:

p. 550, line 3: for ‘garder’, read ‘guider’.

line 24: for ‘Blaue’, read ‘Blaeu’.

line 36: for ‘cartes qu'ils’, read ‘cartes qui les’.

p. 554, line 13: for ‘au-delà’, read ‘en dehors’.

p. 555, line 6: for ‘Magrizi’, read ‘Maqrizi’.

line 32: for ‘à près’, read ‘à peu près’.

p. 556, line 16: after ‘1549’, replace the comma by a full stop.

line 18: for ‘apparait les’, read ‘apparait dès’.