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in the year h. 650, cannot be used as a sufficient test 
of the authenticity of the chronicle, as the historian 
does not mention the name of the king ; but the deed 
itself harmonizes exceedingly well with the warlike 
and enterprising character of Diinama Dibalami, 
whose reign, according to our chronicle, falls between 
the years 618 and 658. Just the same is to be said 
of the fact mentioned by Eb'n Khaldiin, who, in his 
valuable history of the Berbers, which has been re- 
cently made accessible to all, relates * the interesting 
fact that, among other valuable presents, a giraffe was 
sent by the king of Kanem (to whom even at that 
early date he gives the title of " master of Bornu") 
to Abii 'Abd- Allah el Mostanser the king of Tunis, in 
the year of the Hejra 655. The same historian, in 
another passage of his work, referring to the year 656, 
mentions again the king of Kanem as having caused 
the death of a son of Karakosh el Ghozzi el Modafferi, 
the well-known adventurous chieftain who had tried 
to establish himself in Wadan.f 
But fortunately we have other data which afford 
us a very fair test. According to Makrizi J , not long 
* E'bn Khaldun, ed. Macguckin de Slane, Alger. 1847, vol. i. 
p. 429, With regard to the friendship existing between the Bern 
Hafis and the kings of Kanem, see E'bn Khaldun, vol. i. p. 263. 
f E'bn Khaldun, vol. i. p. 300., transl. vol. ii. p. 96. E'bn 
Khaldun, according to his own statement, follows here the au- 
thority of the sheikh Abu-Mohammed, e' Tijani. Compare 
Journal Asiatique, 4me serie, vol. xx. p. 158. 
{ Makrizi, Hamaker, Specimen Catal. p. 206. Makrizi is mis- 
taken in supposing Kanem to be a town and the capital of Bornu. 
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