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his adopted country Kanem to its former splendour, was 
anxious to rescue it from the hands of Waday. 
Sabun died so suddenly that he was unable to name his 
successor ; but by all whom I have questioned on this point, 
I have been assured that the suspicion of poison is quite out 
of the question. Moreover, the circumstances as related by 
M. Fresnel are greatly misrepresented, Sabun having no 
son at all of the name of Seksan ; for he left six sons, the 
eldest of whom, of the name of A'sed, was born of a mother 
from the tribe of the Kondongo, while Yusuf, the second son, 
and three more sons of 'Abd el Kerim, were born of one 
and the same mother, who belonged to the tribe of the 
Madaba. As for Jafar, who, on account of his long residence 
in Tripoli, and his numerous interesting adventures, has 
become well known to the English public*, his mother be- 
longed to another tribe. 
When therefore Sabun had died, without naming his suc- 
cessor, the partisans of the tribe of the Madaba arose against 
the Kondongo, or the faction of A'sed ; and having succeeded in 
vanquishing their adversaries, and slaying A'sed, they placed 
on the throne Yusuf, with the surname Kharifavm, a name 
which, however, is not generally known in the country. This 
Yusuf, partly under the guardianship of his uncle A'bu 
Kokkhiye, and partly by himself, after he had slain his uncle, 
together with Dommo, the agid of the Mahamid, ruled for 
sixteen years in the most tyrannical manner over Waday 
till, about the beginning of the year 1830, he was put to 
death at the instigation of his own mother, whose name was 
Simbil. There has never ruled over Waday a king of the 
name of 'Abd el Kader ; and Major Denham was quite right 
when, in 1823, he called the then king of that country the 
immediate successor of Sabun. 
* See Mr. Barker's, or rather Lieutenant (now Rear-Admiral) 
Sir Henry Smyth's story of Jafar in the United Service Journal, 
1830. 
