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APPENDIX IX. 
Songhay. 
A.D. 
A.H. 
Neighbouring Kingdoms. 
side. He was, however, overtaken, 
and confined in the state prison at 
Kantu, where he was killed, to- 
gether with the Barakoy ; as were 
also the Tumbutu-koy and the 
Pmoshaghenkoy. Of course the 
inhabitants of Timbuktu, having 
oU uuciiiy lavuui cu. txic iji vjocc^iiii^o 
of the Pretender, were severely 
punished, and a new Tumbutukoy, 
Al Hasan, the last during the 
Songhay period, and a new Pmosha- 
ghenkoy, were installed. A'skia 
Ps-hak likewise installed new go- 
vernors of Banku, Bal, and Kur- 
mina, and confirmed others in their 
provinces. 
Having recovered from the severe 
shock inflicted upon the empire by 
this rebellion, A'skfaPs-hak under- 
took an expedition against ISTaman- 
dugu, evidently the place touched 
at by myself on my road to Tim- 
buktu, inhabited by pagans of the 
Gurma tribe, and the following 
year he undertook an expedition 
against some other part of Gurma*, 
— namely Tmfiri. Having thus had 
some respite, and consolidated his 
empire, he planned an expedition 
against Kala, the province to the 
north of Jinni, which it would 
seem had been subjected to the 
former A'skia ; but when about to 
undertake this expedition into the 
furthest parts of his empire, he 
heard of the arrival f of the Ma- 
halla of the Basha Jodar, a valiant 
eunuch of Mulay Hamed, the em- 
peror of Morocco, with an army of 
j 3600 musketeers, in 174 divisions of 
' 20 each besides the officers | ; and he 
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* The name Gurma seems to be employed here quite in a general sense. 
f It is remarkable that Baba A'hmed does not intimate at all by what road the Basha arrived. 
% That Jodar was a eunuch, and a native of Almeria, we learn from a Spanish source, a paper written the 
16th of October, 1G48. by an unknown author, in " Papeles Curiosas," of the Egerton Collection, n. 10,262, p. 235. : 
" Aquel valeroso Eunuco renegado natural de Almeria ; " and further on, " Esta conquista hizo el famoso Jaudar, 
que fue celebre en Berberia como uno de los de la fama." 
