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Songhay. 
AD. 
A.H. 
Neighbouring Kingdoms. 
where to fight against each other, 
and property and life became ex- 
posed to constant danger ; and this 
ruin began, spread, increased, and 
at length prevailed throughout the 
whole region." 
Thus wrote old Baba Ah'med, who 
had himself lost everything in 
consequence of that paramount 
calamity which had befallen his 
native land, and who had been 
carried a prisoner to the country 
of the conqueror, till, owing to 
the unbounded respect which the 
enemy himself felt for the learning 
and sanctity of the prisoner, he 
was released, and allowed to re- 
turn to Songhay, where he seems 
to have finished his days, by en- 
deavouring to console himself, for 
the loss of all that was dear to 
him, with science, and in writing the 
history of his unfortunate native 
country. 
The kingdoms of Asianti and 
Dahome begin to become 
powerful. 
- 
Mulay Hamed el Mansur, the con- 
queror of Songhay, died. 
1603 
1012 
Zeddn,his youngest son is proclaimed 
sultan ; but has to sustain a long 
struggle against his brothers 'Abd- 
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Morocco, when Sheikh is recog- 
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exercise an immediate influence 
upon the government of Songhay, 
which had now become a province 
of Morocco.* 
1607 
1016 
Mulay Zedan died. 
1630 
1040 
Mulay 'Abd el Melek succeeds him : 
is assassinated. 
* I had no time to excerpt this latter part of Baba A'hmed's history, but it is full of information with regard to 
this turbulent period. 
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