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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. 
ances ; and in order to concentrate the 
government, he built a large capital, Ghasr- 
eggomo, generally called Birni, the future 
residence of the kings of Bornu, on the river 
Wail, three days west from the modern town 
Kukawa. For until this period the Bornu 
people lived only in temporary encamp- 
ments in the conquered country, although 
Nanigham had been the ordinary residence 
of the kings. It was in this king's reign, 
doubtless, that Leo visited Bornu ; and it is 
by this author that we are informed of one of 
the many wars which the prince carried on, 
who, on this account alone, of all the kings of 
Bornu, seems to have obtained the surname 
" el Ghazi" — " the warrior," or rather " the 
conqueror." Wangara — that is, the country 
of the Eastern Mandingoes, about the name 
and extent of which we shall not leave 
any doubt in our further inquiries — seems, 
indeed, to be rather distant from Bornu, 
particularly if it be taken into considera- 
tion that the nearest provinces were ill 
subjected; but if the Baramuwasa be iden- 
tical, as can scarcely be doubted, with the 
frontier-river between Borgu and Ydruba, 
Wangara was close to the western frontier 
of the tributary provinces of Bornu, and it is J 
only to be attributed to the miserable cha- 
racter of the chronicle, and to the general 
scantiness of our sources, that we hear 
nothing of the several expeditions which 
the Bornu kings made into the provinces 
of the Kwara, and of the interesting rela- 
tion which appears to have existed between 
Bornu and some of the Bdrgu places, par- 
ticularly Brusa. It is moreover to be taken 
into account, that Wangara probably ex- 
tended, at that time, more to the east, and 
almost reached the Kwara. 
But the Bulala, the old and inveterate enemies 
of Bornu, were not yet humiliated ; and it 
was an inroad of the king of that empire 
into Bornu which obliged 'AH Ghajideni 
(assuming him to be identical, as he cer- 
tainly is, with Leo's Pbrahim) to give up 
the conquest of Wangara. That the name 
of this king of the Bulala was 'Omar, as 
Leo says, we have strong reasons to doubt, 
and think it another lapse of memory. 
