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a prey to a new nation which had started forth on a 
career of glory, the Fiilbe or Fellata, there arose a 
stranger, a nationalized Arab, who, in saving the last 
remains of the kingdom, founded a new dynasty, that 
of the Kanemiyin, which, after having shone forth very 
brightly under its founder, was recently reduced by 
civil discord, and seems now destined to a premature 
old age. 
Having here offered this general view of the em- 
pire of Bornu, I refer for particulars to the appended 
chronological tables, which I trust, although very im- 
perfect, particularly in the beginning, will yet form a 
sufficient groundwork wherewith to begin more pro- 
fitable inquiries into the history of those regions 
than have been hitherto made. 
