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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. XXIX. 
How powerful a tribe the Tedd were, is suffi- 
ciently shown by the length of the war which they 
carried on with that very king Dunaraa Selmami, 
and which is said to have lasted more than seven 
years. Indeed, it would seem as if it had been only 
by the assistance of this powerful tribe that the suc- 
cessors of Jil Shikomemi were able to found the 
powerful dynasty of the Bulala, and to lay the 
foundation of the great empire called by Leo Gaoga, 
comprehending all the eastern and north-eastern parts 
of the old empire of Kanem, and extending at times 
as far as D6ngola, so that in the beginning of the 
16th century it was larger than Bornu.* Even in 
the latter half of the 16th century, the Tedd appear 
to have constituted a large proportion of the military 
force of the Bulala in Kanem ; and great numbers 
of them are said, by the historian of the powerful 
king Edris Alawoma, to have emigrated from Kanem 
into Bornu, in consequence of the victories obtained 
by that prince over the Bulala. At that time they 
seem to have settled principally in the territories of 
the Koyam, a tribe very often mentioned in the book 
Teda (the Tebu language) and the Kanuri, in a letter addressed 
to M. Lepsius, and published in G-umprecht's Monatsberichte 
(Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin), 1854, vol. ii. p. 373. 
The Teda, together with the Kantiri, formed the stock called by 
Makrizi ^J^j (Zaghai) and ^^ruJl by Masudi. (Meadows 1. 
xxxiii. p. 138.) 
* This, I think, is also the meaning of Leo, when he says (1. c. 
c. 7.), " II dominio del re di Borno, il quale ne a la minore" (parte). 
But Leo wrote just at the time when Bornu was about again to rise 
to new splendour. 
