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Songhay. 
A.D. 
A.H. 
Neighbouring Kingdoms. 
met him on the battle-field on the 
18th Jumad II., but fled before him. 
Jodar remained only seventeen days 
in Gagho, when the Khatfb Mah- 
mud behaved in a very hostile 
manner towards the strangers. 
On visiting the palace of the A'skia, 
in the presence of witnesses, he 
found it not equal to his expec- 
tation, and accepted the conditions 
of Fs-hak, who offered to give him 
1000 slaves and 100,000 mithkal 
of gold, if he gave up the con- 
quered country. The JBasha, al- 
though he was not authorized to 
agree upon these conditions him- 
self, consented to write an ac- 
count of them to his liege lord, 
and return meanwhile to Tim- 
buktu. He therefore wrote to 
MulayHamed, in conjunction with 
the Kaid A'hmed ben el Haddad, 
adding at the same time, in order to 
show his master that the conquered 
country was not worth a great deal, 
that the dwelling of the Sheikh El 
Haram (a very inferior personage) 
in Morocco excelled by far the pa- 
lace of the A'skia. But the am- 
bitious Mulay Hamed, the friend 
of Philip IL, who, in following the 
example of his friend the mighty 
prince of Europe, contemplated the 
conquest of new regions, was filled 
with wrath at the receipt of the 
despatches of his officer Jodar, de- 
posed him on the spot, and sent 
the Basha Mahmud ben Zarkiib, 
accompanied by 80 musketeers, 
with instructions to undertake the 
command of the army, and drive 
A'skia Fs-hak out of Sudan. 
Meanwhile Jodar having arrived at 
Mose- or Bose-Bango (the same 
creek of the great river where I was 
encamped for some time) on the last 
day of Jumada IL, remained en- 
camped for thirty-five days, from 
the 1st Rejeb till the 6th Shaban, 
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