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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. XXIV. 
since the conquest of the country, in order to anni- 
hilate, as far as possible, the national records. 
The dynasty founded by Komayo comprised four 
kings in succession, besides its founder, namely, 
Ramba, Teryau, Jerinnata and Sanawu. Sanawu, 
after a reign of thirty years, is said to have been killed 
by Korawu, who came from a place named Yendiitu, 
and founded a new dynasty (if we count backwards 
from the time of Ibrahim Maji) about the year 722 of 
the Hejra; but, of course, I do not pretend to any 
exactness in these dates. Whether Ibrahim Maji 
belonged to the same dynasty which Korawu had 
founded, I am not able to say. About thirty years 
before the time of Ibrahim Maji, in the year 919 
a. h., or 1513 a. p., occurred that eventful expe- 
dition of the great Songhay king Haj Mohammed 
A'skia which threw all these countries into the 
greatest confusion. According to Leo, at that time 
Katsena acknowledged the supremacy of Kano, hav- 
ing been subjected for only a short time to the sway 
of the king of Songhay, and afterwards most pro- 
bably to that of the energetic and successful king of 
Kebbi, who repulsed the great A'skia. Katsena must 
have fallen very soon under the supremacy of the 
empire of Bornu. About fifty years after the be- 
ginning of the reign of the first Moslim king, a new 
dynasty commenced, that of the Habe*, which, as it 
* " Habe," plural of the singular " Kado " is a general term now 
applied by the Fulbe to the conquered race ; but in this instance 
the application is different. It is not improbable that the con- 
