CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE HISTORY OF SONGHAY. G13 
Songhay. 
A.D. 
A. II. 
Neighbouring Kingdoms. 
Rebi II.), and being joined by the 
troops of the latter, and by many 
other bodies of the great army of 
the West, the Fereng of Baghena, 
Mansa, the Homborikoy, and others, 
left Kabara on the 1st Jumada. 
A'skfa Mohammed Bana marched 
out of Gagho on the 12th, in order 
to meet the rebel, but died the same 
day, either from the effects of 
wrath, or in consequence of the 
heat of the weather and his own 
corpulency. He reigned one year, 
four months, and eight days. 
The day following the death of Mo- 
hammed Bana, the army having re- 
entered the town of Gagho, Fs-hak, 
another son of Daud, ascended the 
throne as A'skfa. B ut the Pretender, 
having been raised by his troops 
on his way to Gagho, to the dignity 
of A'skia, pursued his march, while 
A'skia Fs-hak left his capital, when 
both armies met at a place called 
Kainba-Kiri, evidently only four 
days'* march from Gagho, where, 
after a violent struggle which 
lasted the whole day, the army of 
the Pretender was beaten, and he 
escaped towards Timbuktu. Great 
was the disappointment of the in- 
habitants of this town. They had 
celebrated the accession to power 
of their favourite, Mohammed e' 
Sadik, with the greatest manifes- 
tations of joy, and had even im- 
prisoned, on the 21st, at his re- 
Quest, tne messenger wno iitiu an- 
nounced the accession of Fs-hak. On 
the 28th, there arrived the favour- 
ite as a fugitive, who brought them 
the account of the unfortunate 
battle, and, having plunged them 
into deep sorrow, continued his 
flight, in company with the Hombo- 
rikoy, the Barakoy, by way of Tin- 
dirma, across the river to the other 
* Eighteen days' march with an army from Timbuktu, nine days for a single horseman on flight. 
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