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been able to collect any specimens, and which seems 
to be almost extinct, are said to have come from 
Dongola, where they had separated from the Batalesa, 
the well-known Egyptian tribe originally settled in 
Benese. Advancing from D6ngola, the Tynjur are 
said to have vanquished first the Dajo, who, as has 
been stated before, were at that period masters of 
Dar-Fiir, and in course of time spread over the whole 
of Waday, and over part of Bagirmi, making Ka- 
dama, a place situated about three days' march to 
the S.W. of Wara, and halfway between Malam and 
Kashemere, the capital of their extensive empire. 
They maintained their dominion, as far as regards 
Waday, according to native tradition, ninety-nine 
lunar years, while the eastern portion of this loosely- 
connected group of different nationalities, which had 
been conquered at an earlier period, was wrested 
from their hands much sooner, by Kiiro vanquishing 
the Tynjur, and founding the pagan kingdom of Dar- 
Fiir, some time before the general introduction of 
Islam into these countries. This Kuro himself was 
the third predecessor of Simian, the first Moslim 
prince of Dar-Fiir. But as for the centre of the 
empire of the Tynjur, it was overthrown by the 
founder of the Mohammedan empire of Waday, viz. 
f Abd el Kerim the son of Yame, — according to tra- 
dition, in the year 1020 of the Hejra. 
However, of the kings of Waday I shall not speak 
here, as their history has not exactly reference 
