CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE HISTORY OF BO'RNU. 635 
Name of the King. 
Principal Events during the Reign of each King. 
Place where he 
died. 
Length of 
the Reign 
.in Lunar 
Years. 
Hume, or Ume. 
Son of *Abd el Jelfl 
and Tikramma, of 
the tribe of the 
Kaye. 
Founded a new dynasty by the profession of 
Islam. Maknzi's (Hamaker, p. 206.) state- 
ment, that the first Mohammedan king of 
Kanem was Mohammed Ben Jebel (or 
rather Jil) refers most probably to the 
later dynasty of Kanem, namely, the Bu- 
lala, while he counted all the members of 
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and made up the number of forty kings 
who had preceded him. (See what I have 
said above on this point, p. 263.) The mis- 
sionary who introduced Islam into Kanem, 
according to the same Makrizi, was Hadi 
el 'Othmani. From the place where Hume 
died, it may be inferred that he intended, 
or even accomplished, a pilgrimage. 
Masr (Egypt). 
12. 
A. H. 
479—490. 
A. D. 
1086— 1C97. 
DuNAMA. 
Son of Hume and 
Kinta, of the tribe 
of the Tebu, or 
Teda (not Tin). 
A very powerful king, according to the chro- 
nicle the most powerful of the Beni Hume, 
who had a strong and very numerous army, 
horse and foot, and made thrice the pil- 
grimage to Mekka with a numerous retinue. 
Having excited the suspicions of the inha- 
bitants of Egypt, he is said to have been 
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for Mekka, and in the very turbulent state 
in which Egypt was at that time, under the 
reign of e' Dhafer be amr-Illah, this is by 
no means so improbable as it might other- 
wise appear to be. The capital Njimiye, 
notwithstanding the strength of the empire, 
seems to have been at that time still a very 
small place.* 
Egypt, 
or rather the 
GulfofSuez. 
55. 
A. H. 
491—545. 
A. D. 
1098—1150. 
BlRI. 
Son of Dunama and 
Fasame, of the 
tribe of the Kaye. 
Seems to have been at first entirely under 
the influence of his mother, who even im- 
prisoned him. If he had not much energy, 
he must have been at least a very learned 
man, for Imam A'hmcd calls him " el faki 
e' taki," p. 31. ; and it would seem from the 
report of the chronicle, that part of the 
ceremonial of the court dates from his 
time, even if through the influence of his 
mother. 
Ghamtilu ? 
Bela Ghanna. 
(billaghana?) 
27. 
A. H. 
546—572. 
1151 1-1176. 
* Edrisf, translated by Jaubert, vol. i. p. 24., where 1 is to be read instead of a^H* 
