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descent or succession, I have not thought these two 
lists worthy of attention, except only with regard to 
the reign following that of the 58th king, if we count 
the reign of the usurper Said e Alf, the son of Haj 
'Omar. For here the chronicle No. 1. has omitted, 
by mistake or negligence, the well-established reign 
of Edris ben e Ali, who, succeeding to his father \Ali, 
preceded his younger brother Dtinama ben e Ali, and 
reigned 20 years.* 
What I have here said with regard to the authen- 
ticity of the chronicle refers only to the line of 
descent and succession of the kings mentioned ; but, 
of course, it is quite another question, if we take into 
view the length of time attributed to the reign of each 
succeeding king. But even here the dates of the 
chronicle are confirmed in a most surprising and satis- 
factory manner by the history of Imam A'hmed, who, 
in relating the successful expedition of Edris A'aishami 
to Kanem, states that from the time when Daud Ni- 
kalemi was obliged to leave his capital Njimiye, down 
to the period when Edris made his entrance into it, 
122 years had elapsed. Now, according to the dates 
of the chronicle, between the end of the reign of Daud 
and the beginning of the reign of Edris, who is ex- 
pressly stated by the historian to have undertaken 
that expedition in the first year of his reign, there in- 
* Indeed, in the copy which I sent to Europe, the copyist has 
corrected this error ; but unfortunately, instead of inserting this 
reign in the right place, he has added the twenty years to the 
thirty-three years of the reign of the elder Edris ben 'AM. 
