CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE HISTORY OF BO'RNU, 
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Name of the King. 
Principal Events during the Reign of each King. 
Place where he 
died. 
Length of 
the Reign 
in Lunar 
Years. 
his empire as far as Kabara, the harbour of 
Timbuktu, we must conclude that lie was 
victorious. Finally, to speak of the little 
we know, it must have been he who sent 
the embassy to Tripoli in the year 1534, 
if the date be correct. 
There is certainly, in the passage of our chro- 
nicle which relates to the reign of this 
king, some degree of confusion ; and it is 
very unfortunate that, after having aspired 
to a little more completeness, it just be- 
comes exceedingly brief and dry in the most 
interesting part of the history of the Bornu 
kingdom. The confused passage has been 
taken into account in a preceding comment ; 
and we are not able at present to explain 
why this energetic prince, who waged war 
on the opposite borders of his extensive 
empire, at immense distances from each 
other, can be said to have resided " nine- 
teen [years] in Lade." But the fact may 
simply have been that he did not like to 
reside in the large capital or birni, Ghasr- 
eggomo, but preferred dwelling in a small 
neighbouring town ; or perhaps it was one 
of the objects of his ambition to transfer 
the seat of government, from the place 
chosen by his predecessors, to some new 
place of his own choice. Even at the pre- 
sent day^ there is a place of the name of 
Lade in the neighbourhood of Ghambaru ; 
and another one is mentioned by Imam 
A'hmed, at four short days' journey on the 
road to Kanem. 
Be this as it may, " the kingdom of Bornu 
reached under Mohammed the highest pitch 
of its greatness." I here, therefore, add a 
list of the twelve great offices, or alam, 
which constituted the chief machinery of 
the empire, and which are already indi- 
cated by Makrizi* in the words, "and 
they have twelve princes." Imam A'hmed 
calls these high officers generally " el 
akaber el aalam," or " erbab e' duleh," or 
"el omra." They are all mentioned by 
him, except the ghaladima, the fuguma, and 
the kaghustemma : — 
Kayghamma, or Keghdmma, corresponding to 
* Hamaker, p. 206. 
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