CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE HISTORY OF BO'RNU. 637 
Name of the King. 
Principal Events during the Reign of each King. 
tury.* He likewise is the king who, in the 
time of E'bn Said, a.h. 650 (a. d. 1252-3), 
invaded the well-watered populous country 
of Mabinaf , which it is difficult to identify, 
although the name bears some resemblance 
to Fumbina, the indigenous name of A'da- 
mawa, while the geographer's account of 
the situation of that country agrees well 
with Fumbina ; but we shall find another 
name closely related to it. It is also Ebn 
Said who first calls Bdrnu — that is, the 
country on the south-western side of the 
Tsad as far as Dikowa — part of Kanem. 
The empire of Kanem at that time ex- 
tended, according to Imam A'hmed, from 
the Nile, near Dhiiwi, as far as the rivulet 
Baramuwasa, in the west, which most pro- 
bably is identical with what Clapperton 
(Second Journey, p. 63.) calls the river 
Moussa (bahr Musa), the river which di- 
vides the territories of Yoruba and Borgu, 
and we may add, from Mabina in the south 
to Wadan in the north. (See what I have 
said, p. 263. ; also, with regard to the pre- 
sent sent by the king of Bornu to the ruler 
of Tunis in a.h. 665.) But Dunama laid 
the foundation for the ensuing disasters of 
the empire, by opening, as the Bornu 
people say, the " munni," or " talisman of 
Bornu." What it was it is difficult to say j ; 
but what it meant may be more easily con- 
jectured, chiefly from the words of the 
imam A'hmed, who expresses himself thus 
(pp. 123, 124.): "When the thing which 
was in it (the talisman) escaped, it called 
forth and provoked every powerful man to 
ambition and intrigues, in the government 
and in high charges." Indeed, from this 
time, civil wars, murders of kings, and 
changes in the dynasty, succeeded each 
other without interruption. 
Place where he 
died. 
* A'bu '1 Feda, texte Arabe, p. 245., compared with p. 127., where, in speaking of Wadan, he says distinctly 
& " And the whole of the country is at present under the 
dominion of the king of Kanem." In the time of Makn'zi the empire of Kanem extended from Zala, the well-known 
place eight days' march from Aujila, and che same distance from the syrtis (Edn'si, p. 288. ; A'bu '1 Feda, p. 128.) 
as far as Kaka (Gogo), on the meridian of Maghreb el ausM.-Q.uatr em ere, Memoires sur VEgypte, vol. li. p'. 28. ' 
t E'bn S id, cited by Makn'zi. Hamaker, Spec. Cat. p. 206. It is to be remarked that in both instances where 
the name is mentioned, a ^ precedes, which might have taken away the 3 . 
X Mr. Blau (p. 311.), in translating this passage of the chronicle, which he did not understand, has made a most 
ridiculous mistake. 
