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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. 
above, p. 259.). Having then heard, on his 
return to Bornu, that A'dim, another son 
Of 'Abd el Jelil, had usurped the throne 
after his brother's death, he returned once 
more, vanquished A'dim, and established 
for a long period the dependency of Kanem 
upon Bornu. (Imam A'hmed.) It could 
only have been Edris, and not Musa — a 
name which does not at all occur in the 
list of the kings of Bornu — who sent an 
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circumstance which clearly shows the ele- 
vated political views of that king. Of the 
other achievements of his brilliant career, 
we are unfortunately deprived by the loss 
or concealment of the contemporaneous ac- 
count of his reign by the fakih Masfarma 
'Omar ben 'Othman, though I still entertain 
hopes that the work may some day or other 
come to light. 
Mohammed. 
Son of Edvis and 
Zi'neb. 
A very powerful and mighty king, successful 
in all directions. He vanquished and 
killed Kade the son of Abd el Jelil and 
Lify a, who, only forty days after Mohammed 
had ascended the throne, came to attack 
him at Natha ; and in consequence of this 
victory kept Kanem in a state of strict 
obedience. His reign is very important to 
us, because he is one of the kings of Bornu 
of whose conquests and activity towards 
the west we have obtained some positive 
account. For, as we learn from the Christian 
captive in Iripoliy, Mohammed fought a 
great and celebrated battle with the king 
of Kebbi — probably Tomo, of the dynasty 
of the Kanta, who founded Birni-n-Kebbi. 
The "captive," unfortunately, does not state 
what was the issue of the battle ; but al- 
though we cannot agree with Mr. Blau, 
who interprets the words of our chronicle, 
" gareb hu ila hedud el Kabara bemem- 
lekettihi, " J as if Mohammed had extended 
Ghasreggomo. 
19. 
A. II . 
933—951. 
A. D. 
1526-1545. 
* Bulletin de la Soc. Geogr. Paris, 1849, p. 252. t Ibid. 
% The words mean evidently nothing else than that under him the empire of B6rnu reached its highest pitch of 
greatness. The name of the town of Kabara is written tj)\£> and wa s never a town of great importance ; indeed it 
is absurd to suppose that the name of a small harbour should have been mentioned here in preference to that of the 
capital, Gagho or G6g6, or at least Timbuktu. 
