Chap. XXV. 
HISTORY OF KANO'. 
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and installed his own representative in the place of 
that of Bornu, and though the eastern provinces of 
Kororofa itself (I mean the district inhabited by 
the Koana or Kwana) became afterwards tributary 
to Bornu, yet the main province (or Jiiku Proper) 
with the capital Wukari, seems to have always re- 
mained strong and independent, till now, at length, 
it seems destined to be gradually swallowed up by the 
Fiilbe, if the English do not interfere. But to return 
to our subject. As long as Katsena continued inde- 
pendent and flourishing, the town of Kano appears 
never to have been an important commercial place ; 
and it was not till after Katsena had been occupied 
by the Fiilbe, and, owing to its exposed position on the 
northern frontier of Hausa, had become a very unsafe 
central point for commercial transactions, that Kano 
became the great commercial entrepot of Central 
Negroland. Before this time, that is to say, before 
the year 1807, I have strong reason to suppose that 
scarcely any great Arab merchant ever visited Kano, 
a place which nevertheless continues till this very 
day to be identified with Ghana or Ghanata, a state or 
town expressly stated by Arab writers of the 11th 
century to have been the rendezvous for Arab mer- 
chants from the very first rise of commercial connec- 
tions with Negroland. And all regard to historical 
or geographical facts is put aside merely from an 
absurd identification of two entirely distinct names 
such as Kano and Ghana or Ghanata. 
As to the period when the Kanawa in general be- 
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