590 
APPENDIX IX. 
Songhay. 
A.D. 
A.H. 
Neighbouring Kingdoms. 
migrated to Timbiiktu, although 
this was more frequently the case 
after the time of Sonni 'All. 
The town of Timbuktu ransacked 
and destroyed by fire and sword 
by the king of Mosi, the garrison 
ot Melle making their escape, and 
giving up the town. The power 
of Mosi, which up to this time has 
always been the successful cham- 
pion of paganism, is very remark- 
able at such an early period, but 
the date is not quite certain within 
a year or two. If the date given 
be right, it happened towards the 
end of the reign of Mansa Miisa. 
1329 
?730 
1331-5 
732-736 
Mansa Magha succeeds to his 
father Mansa Musa, and reigns 
four years. 
The Songhay prince, 'All Killun, or 
Kilnu, son of Za Yasebi, escapes 
in the company of his brother from 
the court of Melle, where the 
princes had served as pages, Son- 
ghay owing allegiance to Melle 
at that period. Having safely 
reached his native country, Son- 
ghay Proper, with the capital Gogt), 
he makes himself independent in 
a certain degree from Melle, by 
founding the dynasty of the Sonni.* 
1335-6 
736 
Mansa Sliman, a brother of Mu- 
sa and uncle of Magha, suc- 
ceeds to the throne of Melle, 
and restores the strength of 
the kingdom. 
Timbuktu having been left, as it 
seems, to itself for seven years, 
relapses into a state of subjection 
737 
Mansa Sliman again takes pos- 
session of Timbuktu and 
even obliges Songhay Proper 
* A'hraed Baba savs (p. 524.), "'All Killim put an end to the supremacy of Melle oyer Songhay. After his death 
his brother ruled, SUman Nar Their dominion was limited to Songhay and the neighbouring districts." 
+ The "date s seems to be certain, for if A'hmed Baba had only known that the second dominion of the kings of 
Melle over Timbuktu, which they lost in the year 837, had lasted 100 years we might doubt about the fact that the 
epoch began exactly with the year 737, but the author gives the precise date of that very year. I therefore prefer 
his arrangement to the arguments of Mr. Ralfs, p. 582. 
