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APPENDIX IX. 
Songhay. 
A.D. 
A.H. 
Neighbouring Kingdoms. 
according to the expressive 
terms oi A nmed ±>aba , the 
Songhay historian, possessed 
" an aggressive strength with- 
out measure or limit." While 
thus extending his dominion 
over an immense portion of 
Negroland, he kept on the 
very best terms with the 
Sultan A'bu'l Hassan of El 
Maghreb (Morocco). 
Mansa Musa subjected to his 
dominion the four large ter- 
ritories of the Western part 
of Negroland ; first, Baghena, 
formed out of the remnants 
of the kingdom of Gbanata, 
and including the whole in- 
habited country of Taganet 
andA'derer; secondly, Zagha, 
or the Western Tekrur, toge- 
ther with Silla; then Tim- 
buktu, at that time still, as it 
seems, independent of Gogo; 
and finally Songhay, with its 
capital Gogo. Jinni, however, 
probably owing to its nearly 
insular character seems not 
to have become subjected to 
Melle even at this period, al- 
though it was engaged in con- 
tinual warfare. 
It is probably at the period of this 
pilgrimage, and not before, that 
both Songhay and Timbuktu be- 
came dependent on Melle, al- 
though the dependence was even 
at this time limited, the king of 
Songhay having, as it seems, 
quietly made his subjection on the 
approach of the host of Melle. 
Musa built a mosque and a mih- 
rab outside the then town (Mo- 
hammedan quarter ?) of Gogo. 
Timbuktu also, as it would seem, 
1326 
726 
Mansa Musa makes a pilgrim- 
age to Mekka, with a very 
numerous cortege, resembling 
an army, and with great riches, 
going by way of Walata and 
Tawat and returning by Ga- 
gho or Gogo. 
Melle Proper seems to have had 
a double principle of govern- 
ment, one political and the 
other national. In political 
respects Melle was divided into 
two provinces — a northerly 
* A'hmed Baba, in Journ. Leipsic Oriental Society, p. 530. 
