616 APPENDIX IX. 
Songhay, 
A.D. 
outside the town of Timbuktu *, 
when the term fixed for the return 
of his courier from Morocco having 
elapsed, he well saw that all was 
not right, and that his master was 
not content with his proceedings. 
He therefore entered the town 
with his soldiers, chose for himself 
the quarter of the Ghadamsfyin, 
between the gate leading to Ka- 
bara and the market, as the most 
densely inhabited quarter, and as 
containing the largest houses, for 
the purpose of erecting there a 
kasbah, driving the inhabitants out 
of their dwellings by force. It 
also seems, from another passage 
of A'hmed Baba, that the Ruma 
shut all the gates of the town 
with the exception of the gate 
leading to Kabara, the consequence 
of which was that all the people, 
in order to enter the town or to 
go out of it, had to pass through 
or under the kasbah, so that the 
whole traffic and all tbe inter- 
course could easily be overawed by 
a limited garrison. 
On Friday, the 26th Shawal, the 
new Basha Mahmud arrived in 
Timbuktu, accompanied by the two 
kaid's, 'Abd el Aali and Ham Ba- 
raka, and deposed Jodar, reproach- 
ing him bitterly for not having pur- 
sued the king Ps-hak; but Jodar 
excused himself by pleading that 
he had no boats at his disposition. 
The first thing therefore which the 
Basha, Mahmud had to do was to 
procure boats, the inspector of the 
harbour having fled with the whole 
fleet in the direction of Banku, or 
Bengu. It was on this occasion 
that all the trees in the town were 
cut down. 
On the 20th Dhu '1 Kada, the Basha 
AH. 
Neighbouring Kingdoms. 
* Journ. Leip. Oriental Soc, ix. p. 
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