CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE HISTORY OF SONGHAY. 605 
Songhay. 
A.D. 
A.H. 
Neighbouring Kingdoms. 
have brought about some under- 
standing among the members of 
the royal family. For in the fol- 
lowing year we find the old king 
again in Gagho, when Musa re- 
volted openly against his father, 
and went with some of his brothers 
to Kukia. Yahia, the fereng 
of Kurmina, being again requested 
by his brother to interfere be- 
tween him and his sons, came to 
Gagho, and was sent by the lat- 
ter to Kukia, but was openly 
attacked by the mutinous children, 
and murdered. Musa, then, seeing 
that his father was powerless, re- 
turned to Gagho, and towards the 
end of the year, on the great holi- 
day, forced him to abdicate after 
a reign of thirty- six years and six 
months. Nevertheless, he left him 
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in his own house. Haj Moham- 
med A'skia, as A'hmed Baba says, 
was too great (or too mild) to rule a 
(turbulent) country like Songhay. 
That the extent of the empire, in its 
prime, was not exaggerated by the 
author of the history of Songhay, 
is clear from the account of Mulay 
A'hmed's expedition. 
1528-9 
935 
A' skid Musa began his bloody and 
restless reign by endeavouring to 
murder all his brothers, and pur- 
sued them to Kurmina, where 
they had taken refuge under the 
protection of the governor of that 
province, utnnian ouDaou, anomer 
son of Haj Mohammed ; but he 
forced them all to decamp, to- 
gether with the governor of the 
province himself, as well as the 
governor of Banku, or Bango, and 
other great men. The aged All 
Fulanu, who had accompanied El 
Haj Mohammed on his pilgrimage, 
fled to Kano.* 
1529 
935 
• 
* In this instance also it is not certain whether the town of Kano be meant, or whether that name at the time 
attached only to the whole province. 
