Chap. XLVII. HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF LOGO'tf. 303 
versation this time, as well as on the former occasion, 
was in Kamiri, which he understood perfectly well. 
Logon is, it seems, not a national, but a political 
name, although I have not been able to make out 
its exact meaning.* The inhabitants belong to that 
great race of the Masa whom I have mentioned on a 
former occasion, being the brethren of the Musgu, 
and the kinsmen of the inhabitants of Mandara (the 
Ur-wandala) and the Kotoko. Their political exist- 
ence as people of Log6n (or, as they call themselves, 
Logode Logon) is quite recent f, and their Islam is of 
still more recent origin. Their country also, like that 
of the Musgu, was formerly split into a number of 
small principalities, the chief of Honkel being the 
most powerful among them, till about a century and a 
half ago, when Bruwa, the predecessor of Miyara Masa, 
is said to have founded the town of Log6n, and to have 
removed the seat of his principality to the present 
capital ("birni," or "karnak") of the country. But 
this ruler, as well as his immediate successors, was a 
pagan, and probably at that time there were only a few 
Mohammedans in the place ; and Miyara Sale, the old 
prince whom Denham visited, the father of the present 
ruler Yiisuf, is said to have been the first among the 
petty princes of this country who were converted to 
Islam. Others assert that an older king, M6gha Jenna, 
was the first Moslim ; and this is not at all improbable 
* I think it has no connection with the river or lagham, else 
they could not call it " laghame Logone." 
•f The name is not mentioned in the annals of Edris Alawoma. 
