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580 APPENDIX IX. 
Songhay. 
A.D. 
AH. 
Neighbouring Kingdoms. 
837 
222 
Death of Tilutan, chief of the 
Limtuna, very powerful in 
the desert ; he adopted Islam, 
and converted the neighbour- 
ing Negro tribes. 
Go^o, an important commercial 
place, where Makhled E'bn Kai- 
dad, with the surname of A'bu 
Yezid, that great revolutionist 
who brought so much mischief 
over Northern Africa, was born. 
His father came often from 
Tozer to this place for trading 
purposes*', evidently by way of 
Wargela, that most ancient trad- 
ing place on the northern border 
of the desert. We thus see that 
the commerce between Northern 
A f* * 7 TIT 7 7 * 
Ajnca ana JSegrolana was in- 
finitely older than it has ever been 
supposed. I may here add, that I 
have not the slightest doubt that 
Wargela is meant by the Baka- 
litis of Ptolemy (lib. iv. c. 7, 
p. 305., ed. Wilberg.), which he 
describes from the side of Egypt 
as lying beyond Fezzan, although 
no Roman ruins exist in Wargela. 
893 
about 
280 
900 
287 
Death of Ilettan, the successor 
of Tilutan. 
Kukra. still the ordinary residence 
of the king of Songhay, who al- 
ready at that period becomes very 
powerful. 
918 
961 
306 
350 
Temim, the successor of Ilettan, 
slain by the Zenagha or Sen- 
haja, after which a division 
takes place among the Berber 
tribes established on the border 
of the Desert and Negroland. 
Tin-Yerutan, king of, or rather 
a Berber chief having his re- 
sidence in, Audaghost, an im- 
portant trading colony of the 
Zenagha, who appear at that 
time to have dominated over 
* For this highly important statement, see E'bn Khaldun, trans, by De Slane, vol. iii. p. 201. 
