CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE HISTORY OF BO'RNU. 639 
Name of the King. 
Principal Events during the Reign of each King. 
Place where he 
died. 
Length of 
the Reign 
in Lunar 
Years. 
former kings seem to Lave greatly reduced, 
Vnif. witVimir. tfilrinrr nnfl rlp'st.rnvina' tnpir 
UUl YY HHUUU LlliX.1 11 ^ t^. A i V 1 \A\^iJ\Jl VJJf LLlg^ lUCLl 
strongholds, appears to have risen at that 
period, in a successful war, against their 
aggressors, vanquishing and killing four 
successive Bornu kings, all sons of the 
unfortunate 'Abd Allah, whom an afflicted 
mother is said to have cursed. 
Kure Ghana. 
Vanquished and killed by the So. 
Ghaliwa (?). 
1. 
Son of 'Abd Allah. 
A. D. 1350. 
Kure Ktjra. 
Son of 'Abd Allah. 
Vanquished and killed by the So, at the same 
place as his brother and predecessor. 
Ghaliwa. 
1. 
a. a. 752. 
A.D. 1351. 
Mohammed. 
Vanquished and killed by the So. 
Nanigham. 
1. 
Son of 'Abd Allah. 
a.h. 753. 
a.d. 1352. 
Edris. 
Son of Nikale ( I'bra- 
him) and Hafsa. 
Reigned in the middle of a.d. 1353 (a h. 
754), when E / bn Batuta, who calls him 
king of Bornu, returned from his visit to 
Melle and Songhay by way of Tekadda. 
It is evident that the sons of 'Abd Allah 
having all died, the royal dignity reverted 
to the family of Nikale (Ibrahim). Whether 
Edris was more successful than his pre- 
decessors against the So we are not in- 
formed, nor do we know anything of his 
reign ; and indeed the great uncertainty 
which prevails as to the place where he 
died, seems to intimate rather a quiet reign, 
at least as regards its latter period, though, 
as Dammasak was one of the chief strong- 
holds of the So, it would have been of 
some importance for us to know positively 
whether he died there. 
He made a pilgrimage to Mekka, and is there- 
fore called " Haj Edris" by Makrizi. 
Njimiye. 
This is the cur- 
rent tradition ; 
but some main- 
tained that he 
died at Dam- 
masak.* 
25. 
A. h. 
754—778. 
A. D. 
1353—1376. 
* The place Dammasak may still be identified from a basin of the komadugu which has been called after it. It is at 
present generally called Fatoghana (see above, p. 233.) — Denham (who writes Dummasak), vol. i. p. 160. ; but in tlie 
map the name is accurately spelt from Clapperton's account. 
