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of the people of Waday who were with him are said 
to have fallen. But the inhabitants of Logon, fearing 
that Ruweli would not be able to fight his quarrel 
out, and that they themselves might afterwards suffer 
for having given him protection, thought it more 
prudent to deliver him into the hands of his enemy, 
and succeeded in doing so by stratagem. This am- 
bitious man is stated to have died in Waday, 'Othman 
having delivered him to Sabun. 
The restless prince of Bagirmi obtained a little 
tranquillity as long as Sabun lived ; but Yusuf, who 
succeeded the latter, dissatisfied with him, put forth 
another pretender, of the name of Jarinilme, and 
'Othman had scarcely succeeded in overcoming this 
enemy, which he did without much trouble, when he 
had to fight in another quarter. For Mohammed 
el Kanemi, the sheikh of Bornu (who had assisted 
him to reascend the throne with the sole object of 
regaining the ancient supremacy which Bornu had 
exercised over Bagirmi), when he became aware that 
he had not attained his object, commenced open 
hostilities against him, which gave rise to a struggle 
carried on for a number of years with equal success 
on either side, but without any great result, except the 
ruin of the provinces near their respective frontiers. 
The sheikh of Bornu, beset at the time by other diffi- 
culties, and seeing that he should be unable by himself 
to crush the power of Bagirmi, is then said to have 
called in the aid of Yusuf Basha, of Tripoli, who in 
the year 1818 sent Mustafa el A'hmar, at that time 
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