ima'm a'hmed's account of ka'nem. 507 
From hence he proceeded slowly to Beri*, where the booty 
was divided, and all those among the captives who were 
free men allowed to return to their families or tribes, 
without any ransom, according to a very remarkable 
custom observed from ancient times by the Bulala, in 
their predatory incursions into Bornu— -a first germ of 
international law. 
Second Expedition. 
Scarcely had Edris Alawoma dismissed his governors and 
officers, in order to prepare all that was wanted for another 
expedition into Kanem, when he received the news that his 
indefatigable and harassing enemy had come into the neigh- 
bourhood of Buluji, or Bulughi. 
Edris therefore hastened back from his favourite town 
Ghambaru, when 'Abd el JeKl turned off towards the north 
^ ^ j j ° 
to Kara or Kura and Jitku [probably so 
called from the Tebu tribe of that name], while Edris ben 
Harun, the faithful and valiant vizier of the Bornu king, was 
stationed in the neighbouring town of Butti ^ . 
Edris came from Beri to Ghayawa where he met his 
vizier. 
From Ghayawa he came to the district of the Sugurti 
ariving about the asha. 
From Sugurti he went to "the red water n j*>§ UM. 
From this place, instead of taking the road by Sulu, he 
kept more to the north, reached a copious well at zawal 
(between twelve and one o'clock), started again at aser, 
and reached at sunset the well Rubki or Rubku aCjj 
with irrigated plantations (khattatir). 
* Beri is here once written ^Jj by mistake ; in another place 
it is written & j, 
