CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE HISTORY OF SONG HAY. 599 
Songhay. 
founded a charitable institution in 
Mekka for the people of Tekrur. 
Haj Mohammed A'skia returned to 
Gagho. 
Haj Mohammed undertakes an ex- 
pedition, or a formal jihad, against 
Nasi the sultan of Mosi, having 
sent the Weli Mur Saleh Nur as 
an ambassador to that king, in 
order to induce him to embrace Is- 
lam. But the Mosi people having 
consulted the souls of their an- 
cestors, and refused to change 
their native worship, A'skia de- 
vastated their country. He came 
back from this expedition in Ra- 
madhan. He (himself or 'Othman) 
then conquered the country of 
Baghena, the ancient seat of the 
empire of Ghanah, or Ghanata, the 
king of which had already been 
made tributary by Sonni 'All, and 
slew the Fellani (Pullo) chieftain 
Damba-dumbi. We therefore at 
this early period find the Fulbe 
very powerful, as well in the south 
(Gurma, see p. 596.) as in the 
north-west; while from De Barros 
we learn, that their power in 
the south-west was not less great. 
The Songhay king made an ex- 
pedition against Abairu (?), and 
deprived him of his kingdom.* 
A'skia then sent his brother 'Omar 
Kumzaghu against Melle, where 
the Kaid Kara Fati Kalliyen seems 
to have exercised at the time su- 
preme power ; but "Omar not feel- 
ing himself strong enough to take 
the town of Zillen,or Zalna, where 
the court of Melle seems to have 
been, he sent for the king himself, 
encamping meanwhile in a place 
called Tanfaren, a little to the 
east from Zillen. Haj Moham- 
A.D. 
A.H. 
August 
1497-8 
1498-9 
Dim el 
Hajja, 
903 
904 
1499- 
1500 
1500 
1501 
905 
906 
907 
Neighbouring Kingdoms. 
* In the Gibla, the south-western district of the great desert, there is a tribe of the name Welad Aberi 
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