586 
APPENDIX IX. 
Songhay. 
A.D. 
A.H. 
Neighbouring Kingdoms. 
1203-4 
600 
The tribe or dynasty of the 
A rusiyin becomes powerful 
in the neighbourhood of 
Walata. 
The inhabitants of Jinni, at 
least the ruling portion, in- 
cluding the king, adopt 
Islam. 
Timbuktu (erroneously) stated by 
Leo Africanus* to have been 
founded by Mansa Sliman. This is 
evident confusion ; the reason of 
which is, that Mansa Sliman, who 
reigned in the middle of the four- 
teenth century, restored Tim- 
buktu after it had been plundered 
by the people of Mosi. 
1213 
610 
? Baramindana, first Moslim 
king of Melle, styled king of 
Tekrur by Alakrizi, makes the 
pilgrimage. 
1233-4 
631-633 
With the death of E'bn Gha- 
ma the domination of the 
great race of the Senhaja 
ends.'}' The remains of this 
great tribe in the southern 
part of the desert (the Lim- 
tuna and Messufa) [the latter 
as Mesheduf] are gradually 
reduced to the degraded con- 
dition of tributaries. Islam 
spreads east of the Niger, and 
the name Tekrur appears in 
Kebbi, probably in connection 
with the town of Zagha (see 
Appendix VI.). Btru, or 
Walata, at that time the 
great emporium of Western 
Negroland. 
1235 
-1260 
633-658 
Mari Jatah, king of Melle, on 
the upper Niger, conquers the 
* Leo, 1. vii. c. 6. As it is certain that no king of the name Sliman ruled at that period over Melle, Mr. Cooley, 
in order to explain Leo's statement, supposed him to he a king of the Susu. — Negroland of the Arabs, p. 67. seq. 
t E'bn Khaldun, trans, by De Slane, vol. ii. p. 83. The same author, vol. ii. p. 160. seq., is the authority tor the 
history of Melle. Comp. Cooley, " Negroland," p. 61. seq. 
