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APPENDIX. 
Name of the King. 
Principal Events during the Reign of each King. 
Place where he 
died. 
Length of 
the Reign 
in Lunar 
Years. 
'Abd Allah, 
or Dala. 
Son of Bikoru ben 
Bfii and of Zineb, 
of the tribe of the 
Tebu, or Tubu 
(not Tuba.) 
Fafsa. 
17. 
A.H. 
573-589. 
A D. 
1177—1193. 
Selma, or 
"Abd el Jelil. 
Son of Bfkoru and 
Huwa, of the tribe 
of the DebirL 
As lie lived in the most flourishing period of 
the Bern Hans, the Tunisian princes, who, by 
their friendship, are said to have occasioned 
the ascendancy of the Bornu kings over the 
whole desert*, he must have been one of 
the most powerful of the latter. He is 
said to have been the first black king of 
this dynasty, all the Bornu kings before 
him having had a light complexion like the 
Arabs. But this latter assertion seems to 
be contradicted by the fact, that a pre- 
ceding king had borne the name of Selma, 
or Tselma, which means " the black" (pro- 
perly tselima), from tselim, or tsflim, 
" black." 
Jejeska 
Ghazrwana. 
28. 
A. H. 
590—617. 
A. D. 
1194-1220. 
Dun am a, or 
A'hmed. 
Son of Selma and 
Dibala (therefore 
his full name Df- 
balami Dunama 
Selmami), of the 
tribe of the Ma- 
gharma. 
A very warlike prince, who waged many wars, 
which were generally conducted by his 
sons, who in consequence formed them- 
selves into parties and factions. His 
strength, like that of his ancestor Dunama, 
seems to have consisted chiefly in cavalry, 
of which he is said in the chronicle to have 
possessed 41,000; but, according to the 
more credible testimony of Wanuma Mo- 
hammed Ghana, cited by Imam A'hmed 
(pp. 77, 78.), he had 30,000 ; and that ought 
not to appear so exaggerated, although the 
king in Leo's time had only 3000, for that 
was a very different period, when the empire 
was almost ruined. Dunama's most cele- 
brated deed — of which we are informed 
— is the war he waged against the Tebu 
for more than seven years ; according to 
tradition, 7 years, 7 months, and 7 days. 
And it is most probable that it was this 
enterprising and restless king who ex- 
tended the empire of Kanem over the 
whole of Fezzan, — a state of things which 
lasted till about the middle of the 14th cen- 
Zamtam. 
A little W. from 
Ghambaiu. 
40. 
A. H. 
618—657. 
A. D. 
1221—1259. 
* E'bn Khaldun, c. 
