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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. XXV. 
The town of Kano, considered as the capital of a 
province, must be of somewhat older date than Ka- 
tsena, if we are to rely on Leo's accuracy, though 
from other more reliable sources (which I shall bring 
to light in the chapter on the history of Bornu) 
it is evident that even in the second half of the 
16th century there could have been here only the 
fortress of Dala, which, at that period, withstood the 
attacks of the B6rnu king. I think we are justified 
in supposing that, in this respect, Leo (when, after 
an interval of many years, he wrote the account of 
the countries of Negroland which he had visited) 
confounded Kan 6 with Katsena. The strength of the 
Kanawa, that is to say, the inhabitants of the pro- 
vince of Kano, at the time of the Bornu king Edris 
Alawoma, is quite apparent from the report of his 
imam ; but from that time forth the country seems 
to have been tributary to Bornu ; and the population 
of the town of Kano is said, with good reason, to have 
consisted from the beginning mostly of Kamiri or 
Bornu elements. However, the established allegiance 
or subjection of this province to Bornu was evidently 
rather precarious, and could be maintained only with a 
strong hand ; for there was a powerful neighbour, the 
king of Kor6rofa or Jiiku, ready to avail himself of 
every opportunity of extending his own power and 
dominion over that territory. We know also that 
one king of that country, whose name, however, I 
could not obtain, on the entry of a new governor into 
office in Kano, made an expedition into that country, 
