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Songhay. 
A.D. 
A.H. 
Neighbouring Kingdoms. 
a longing eye on Negroland, and 
requested the A'skia to deliver up 
to him the salt mines of Teghaza ; 
whereupon Fs-hak sent an army 
of 2000 Tawarek to Dark, who 
plundered the market of the Benu 
A'saj without shedding any blood. 
But the Songhay king was destined 
soon to succumb ; and, having 
fallen sick, died in Kukia, where 
he had gone in the beginning of 
that year, on the 24th Safar (24th 
March), after a reign of nine years 
and six months, having named, as 
his successor, Daud, then governor 
of Kurmina, who was fortunate 
enough to arrive before Fs-hak's 
death. 
Daud having ascended the throne in 
Kukia, one day before the death of 
I's-hak, returned to Gagho on the 
1st Rebi I. Daud was a very 
peaceable king, and undertook no 
expedition at all. He resided 
towards the end of his life a long 
time in Tindirma, the capital of 
the province of Kurmina, where 
he had a palace and kept a large 
establishment. A'skia Daud, who 
is said by the Imam e' Tekruri, as 
cited by De Slane*, to have imi- 
tated the example of his father 
Haj Mohammed, died after a reign 
of nearly thirty-four (lunar) years. 
1553 
960 
Sidi 'Omar e' Sheikh, the great 
ancestor of the family of El 
Bakay, died in the district 
Gidi or Igidi. 
El Haj, or El Haj Mohammed, then 
ascended the throne, being the 
eldest son of Daud, and named after 
his grandfather, whom he is said to 
have equalled in the qualities of 
bravery and patient endurance, 
although he remained far behind in 
success, and was plunged from the 
beginning of his reign in civil war, 
which began to rage the very day 
of his accession to the throne, the 
1582 
990 
* De Slane, in "La Revue Africaine," i. p. 291. 
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