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APPENDIX IX, 
Songhay. 
A.D. 
A.H. 
Neighbouring Kingdoms. 
days, in the month of Rejeb (Oc- 
tober or November). 
The army which had just marched 
out upon an expedition,made Is-hak, 
another son of Haj Mohammed, 
A'skia, on the 16th Sh'aban. The 
new king proved a very stern 
master, the severest king who 
ruled over Songhay ; but he 
made himself also respected by 
his enemies, even in the most 
distant quarter. Thus, in the 
third year of his reign, he marched 
against Yaghaba (not Baghaba), 
the most distant place of the sultans 
of Banduk, or Bennendugu, on the 
remotest south-westerly branch of 
the Niger ; and two years later 
he waged war on the opposite 
side of his vast dominions against 
Kukurkab (Kokoy-Kabi?) *, in the 
territory of Dendi. 
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About this time Mohammed, the 
ruler of Bornu, fought a ce- 
lebrated and sanguinary battle 
with the king of Kebbi, pro- 
bably Tdmo, who founded 
here a new and large capital, 
Birm-n-Kebbi. (See Vol. II. 
p. 646.) 
In the course of this year Fs -hak sent 
his brother Daud, the fereng of 
Kurmina, against Melle. The Sul- 
tqn flYTa.nsfl,^ of JVffllp. who ha.vincr 
been reduced to the position of a 
tributary chief by the great Haj Mo- 
hammed, seems to have conceived 
the hope of making himself again 
independent under his successors, 
left his palace and ned, and Daud 
remained for seven days in the 
capital defiling the honour of the 
royal palace in the grossest manner. 
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At the same time, this energetic 
Songhay king showed his power to 
Mulay A'hmed, the powerful ruler 
of Morocco, who, looking about 
for a fresh source of strength, cast 
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* There seems little doubt that the name K&bi is here implied, although A'hmed Baba himself uses the form 
Kebbi, and he adds that it was the name of a locality, " makan ;" but the author had very little knowledge of these 
easterly regions, and, probably, did not know the relation of Kebbi — which he generally designates as the territory 
of Kanta — to Dendi, the name commonly given to this province east of the Niger. 
