CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE HISTORY OF BO'rNU. 615 
Name of the King. 
Principal Events during the Reign of each King. 
Place where he 
died. 
Length of 
the Reign 
in Lunar 
Fears. 
It was probably Selma, or 'Abd el JeHl, 
the father of the prince whom Edris, 'All's 
son and successor, vanquished. The name 
'Omar seems not to occur at all in the 
dynasty of the Bulala. 
But we have another account, which gives us 
a glance into the warlike career of 'AH 
Ghajideni, and informs us of one of his 
expeditions into the far west. For this 
account we are indebted to Sultan Bello, 
who relates in his " Enfak el misuri fi fat- 
ha belad el Tekruri"*, that Kanta, whose 
age as a contemporary of 'AH ben Dunaraa, 
is fixed by the fact that he lived in the 
time of Haj Mohammed A'skia, "having 
oppressed the inhabitants of the provinces 
conquered by him," Sultan "'AH Alij," as 
he is called in the translation, marched 
from Bornu against him, and beat him near 
Surame, his capital (see Vol. IV.), on the 
'Aid el kebfr ; but not being able to reduce 
this strong place, 'AH was obliged to retire, 
when Kanta, having collected a large army, 
followed him till he reached Onghoor 
(most probably Ngaru), " where they met 
and fought together, and Kanta won the 
battle," without, however, being able to 
follow up his victory. This war must fall 
about the very end of the reign of 'AH 
Ghajideni. 
The glory of this reign makes it intelligible 
how Bornu, or Bernu, appears in Portu- 
guese maps as early as the year 1489. 
Edris. 
Son of 'Alf and 
'Aaisha, with the 
surname of Katar- 
kamabi. 
The worthy son and successor of 'AH, who 
accomplished what remained necessary for 
the greatness and the peace of the Bornu 
empire, viz. the humiliation and subjection 
of the Bulala. A short time, therefore, 
after he had ascended the throne, he went 
with a strong army to Kanem, beat the 
Bulala prince Dunama son of 'Abd el 
JeHl, or Selma, at Gharni Kiyala, and 
entered Njfmiye, the old capital of the 
empire of Kanem and Bornu, 122 years 
after King Daud had abandoned it (see 
Walama. 
23. 
A. H. 
910— 932. 
A.n. 
1504— 152G. 
* Denham and Clapperton's Narrative, Appendix, vol. ii. p. 164. 
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