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harboured that jealousy and want of confidence which 
undermines the wellbeing of so many princely house- 
holds based on polygamy. 
K6so at that time was a man of about sixty years 
of age, and, unfortunately, died shortly afterwards, 
in the year 1854. He had displayed a great deal of 
energy on several occasions. It was he who had 
transferred the seat of government of this province 
from Biine to Giire, having conquered (or probably 
only reconquered) this territory from the Diggera, 
the Tawarek tribe formerly scattered over a great 
part of Hausa. But notwithstanding his own ener- 
getic character, he had manifested his faithfulness to 
his sovereign lord in Kiikawa at the time of the in- 
road of the Waday, when Serki Ibram, the governor 
of Zmder, not only declared himself independent, but 
even demanded homage from the neighbouring vassals 
of the Bornu empire, and, when such was denied him, 
marched against Miiniyoma, but was beaten near the 
town of Wiishek. Such faithful adherence to the new 
dynasty of the Kanemiyin in Kiikawa is the more 
remarkable in this man, as the ruling family of Miini- 
yoma seems to have been of ancient standing, and it 
was an ancestor of Koso, of the name of Serriyo, who 
once conquered the strong town of Daura, the most 
ancient of the Hausa states. 
But notwithstanding the more noble disposition 
which certainly distinguished this man from most of 
his colleagues, here also the misery connected with the 
horrors of slave-hunting and the slave-trade was very 
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