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adduce the exactly parallel example of the Bulala, 
a brother dynasty of the Bornu royal family, de- 
scended from the same stock, who, having settled 
and founded a dynasty among the tribe of the Kuka, 
in the territory of Ffttri, still continued to speak their 
native ]anguage, that is the Kanuri, in the time of 
Leo*, but have now entirely forgotten it, adopting 
the language of the people over whom they ruled ; 
and similar examples are numerous. 
A second point which deserves notice is, that the 
Kanuri even at the present day call people in ge- 
neral, but principally their kings, always after the 
name of their mother, and that the name of the 
mothers tribe is almost continually added in the 
chronicle as a circumstance of the greatest impor- 
tance. Thus the famous king Diinama ben Selmaa is 
known in Bornu generally only under the name of 
Dibalami, from the name of his mother Dibala ; 
and the full form of his royal title is Dibalami 
Diinama Selmami, his mother's name, as the most 
noble and important, preceding his individual name, 
which is followed by the name derived from his 
father. It is also evident, even from the dry and 
jejune report of the chronicle, what powerful in- 
fluence the Walide or " Magira " — this is her 
native title — exercised in the affairs of the king- 
* Leo, when he says that the language of Gaoga is identical 
with the Bornu language, does not speak of the language of the 
whole nation, but only of that of the ruling tribe, the Bulala. 
But of this interesting fact I shall say more on another occasion. 
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